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Headline: Scientists Detect Ripples In The Fabric Of Space-Time
Caption: Scientists have found evidence of ripples in the very fabric of space-time itself. The motion of black holes and other massive objects through space can create ripples in the fabric of the universe, called gravitational waves. Researchers announced the first evidence of a background of such long-wavelength gravitational waves in the cosmos. These waves are thought to have been created over eons by supermassive black holes, up to billions of times the mass of our Sun, circling each other before they merge. The background ripples detected could help scientists better understand how gravitational waves are created and what happens to them as they propagate through the universe. They could also be used to study supermassive black hole mergers - events that can last for millions of years. Gravitational waves were first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 but their existence was not confirmed until 2015. The widespread spacetime distortion revealed by the discovery implies that extremely massive pairs of black holes may be similarly widespread across the universe.
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