Tag: gravitational
Gravitational Wave Science Faces Budget Cuts Just Years After Breakthrough Discoveries
Opinion We Just Discovered the Sounds of Spacetime. Let’s Keep Listening Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten to silence this groundbreaking science By Lieke van Son Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other. Long ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes…
How Does a Gravitational Slingshot Work?
The UniverseFridays How Does a Gravitational Slingshot Work? Spacecraft can get a significant boost by stealing energy from planets By Phil Plait edited by Lee Billings This artist’s concept shows an example of a gravitational assist maneuver, used by spacecraft to travel through the solar system. In this example, the spacecraft flies close by Mars,…