The new frontier of gravitational waves

M. Coleman Miller () and Nicolás Yunes ()
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M. Coleman Miller: University of Maryland
Nicolás Yunes: Montana State University

Nature, 2019, vol. 568, issue 7753, 469-476

Abstract: Abstract In 2015, almost a century after Einstein published the general theory of relativity, one of its most important predictions was verified by direct detection: the production of gravitational waves in spacetime by accelerating objects. Since then, gravitational-wave astronomy has enabled tests of the nature of gravity and the properties of black holes, and in 2017 electromagnetic observations of a double neutron star merger producing gravitational waves led to a focus on multi-messenger astronomy. Here we review the history and accomplishments of gravitational-wave astronomy and look towards the future.

Date: 2019
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