When space-time trembles, a new window opens onto the universe.
See how faint ripples from a black hole merger three billion light years away reached Earth and confirmed a century-old prediction from Einstein. This episode reveals how LIGO measures disturbances smaller than a proton and why gravitational waves could one day let us probe the universe's earliest moments.
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