You can't see or feel it, but everything around you including your own body is slowly shrinking and expanding. It's the weird, spacetime-warping effect of gravitational waves passing through our galaxy, according to a new study by a team of researchers with the U.S. National Science Foundation's NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center. The results are the first evidence of the gravitational wave background a sort of soup of spacetime distortions pervading the entire universe and long predicted to exist by scientists.
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Large gravitational waves have been found rippling through the background of space-time. "We ve opened a new window of observation on the universe," said one researcher.
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