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China plans telescope to hunt for primordial gravitational waves

Located at 5250 metres above sea level in Tibet, Ngari-1 will hunt for gravitational waves that should have been thrown out by the big bang

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The 12 biggest and best science stories of 2016

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Space

LIGO should more than double its gravitational wave haul in 2017

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A field of bright dots

Space

Star arrangement that hid for a decade spotted at galaxy’s heart

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Robert Byer

Space

How lasers found gravitational waves – and could hunt for aliens

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Carlo Rovelli

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

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An artistic impression of the path of two black holes as they spiral towards each other

Space

LIGO black hole pair may be stars that lived and died together

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Two black holes spiralling together

Space

LIGO discovers new gravitational wave – and new era of astronomy

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M80 - a globular star cluster in the Milky Way

Space

Black hole pairs spat out of mosh pits make gravitational waves

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Graph showing the gravitational wave signal from LIGO

Space

Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

When space-time ripples, what does it ripple into? Find the answers to this and more not-so-dumb questions in our ultimate gravitational-wave primer

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Space

How we found them: Inside a giant gravitational wave detector

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Space

Was gravitational wave signal from a gravastar, not black holes?

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Physics

Gravitational wave hunters gear up to detect extreme black holes

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Physics

It's mind-blowing what our puny brains can do

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