“This is huge news,” said Dr Stephen Taylor, chair of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (Nanograv) consortium, which spearheaded the discovery, and an astrophysicist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.ĭr Michael Keith, a lecturer at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and a member of the European team that provided independent evidence for the signal, said: “The results presented today mark the beginning of a new journey into the universe to unveil some of its unsolved mysteries. These objects are millions to billions times the mass of the sun and have played a profound role in shaping galaxies, but remain elusive because no light can escape their vicelike grip.
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