As part of a team of scientists, UT researchers found evidence for gravitational waves that shape the universe. The results were the culmination of 15 years of research.
“We basically are in a bath of gravitational waves all around us,” researcher and physics graduate student Jonathan Nay said. “We suspected that they would be there, but this is the first time we actually have compelling evidence that they do exist.”
Published on June 29 by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, the data differs from evidence found in 2015 because the recently discovered waves have much lower frequencies.
“The gravitational waves that we now have compelling evidence for are from much, much larger galactic scale events that happen all around us,” Nay said.
Nay said the waves’ existence was predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity, which…
