Sources of Gravitational Waves—The UnknownSXS Home Page

Objects that physicists have not yet begun to imagine, but lie waiting to be discovered by Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Certainly the most intriguing prospect behind observing gravitational waves is the unknown. Gravitational waves give us a powerful way to look into places astronomers have never before been able to see—hidden behind walls of luminous matter that interfere with light, or hidden in the deepest recesses of time.





 

There are more things in heaven and earth... than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Hamlet
(I,v,166–167)



A LISA gravitational wave detector spacecraft
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