Curious Kids: what are gravitational waves?
- Written by: Sara Webb, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
3D visualisation of gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes.Henze/NASAWhat are gravitational waves? – Millie, age 10, Sydney
What a great question Millie!
To answer this we have to travel back in time, to the year 1916. This is the year famous physicist Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity.
Einstein had...