A CSIRO team at Murriyang has been tracking millisecond pulsars for 18 years and say they have evidence supporting the existence of gravitational waves
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The Parkes radio telescope Murriyang, which helped broadcast the moon landing, has played a central role in another scientific discovery.
Last month, astronomers found the strongest evidence yet for gravitational waves. First theorised by Albert Einstein in 1915, a high-frequency “chirp” of colliding black holes was observed in 2016. But the ultra-low-frequency waves of pairs of black holes orbiting each other had not been observed until recently.
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