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University of California - Santa Barbara

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When two black holes merge, they release gravitational waves, that when lensed by massive objects as they travel to Earth, could be used to calculate the rate of cosmic expansion.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018

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