NEW Discovery of Gravitational Waves | NSF’s Discovery Files

Thanks to the efforts of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center a new milestone in gravitational wave detection can be revealed. We speak with Stephen of Vanderbilt University; Maura McLaughlin of West Virginia University; and Xavier Siemens of Oregon State University, to learn more about their breakthrough. 00:00 New Discovery 01:13 Gravitational Wave Announcement 01:47 What Are Gravitational Waves? 03:32 Detection 05:21 What are Pulsars? 08:17 How We Use Pulsars 10:10 Finding the Pattern 11:32 The Results 13:17 Most Interesting Finding 15:07 Cosmic Orchestra 16:12 Background Noise 18:45 Why Now? 19:49 Partnerships 20:26 Processing Data 22:14 What’s Next? #space #spacefacts #spaceexploration #science #scienceandtechnology #astronomy #astrophysics #discovery #discover #new #news #newstatus #einstein #gravity #gravitation #gravitational_force #ripple #ripples #spacetime #fabric #nsf #podcast #podcaster #podcastshow #p