🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 on Nostr: I just read in a serious article that multiple teams of astronomers have detected a ...
I just read in a serious article that multiple teams of astronomers have detected a stochastic nanohertz (i.e. wavelengths on the order of tens of lightyears) gravitational wave background in the measured variations of millisecond #pulsars over a 15 year period.
I think I need to give my brain a rest period to absorb that.
#Astronomy
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