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China to get a third telescope for Antarctic observations

ChinesescientistssaidonSundaythatChinawilladdathirdAntarcticSurveyTelescope(AST3)totheSouthPolearraytoobservegravitationalwaves,andintroducemoreequipmentforitso

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China scientists make waves with their publicity efforts

OnMondayevening,scientistshailedthedetectionofgravitationalwavesfromthemergingoftwoneutronstars.Chineseobservationaltechnologyplayedkeyrolesinthis.Anarticlepubl

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China announces new gravitational wave observation

WangLifan,directoroftheChineseCenterforAntarcticAstronomy,speaksatapressconferenceatthePurpleMountainObservatoryinNanjing,eastChina'sJiangsuProvince,Oct.16,2017

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China builds world-class astronomical base in Tibet

Scientistsarebuildingaworld-classobservatorybaseatanaltitudeof5,000metersatNgari,inChina'sTibetAutonomousRegion.Withitsthinairandclearsky,theysayNgariPrefecture

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Colliding black holes send gravitational waves rippling through space

Threebillionyearsago,inathirdofasecond,twoblackholescrashedintoeachotherandmergedintoasingleentity,convertingtwosolarmassesintoenergythatshookthefabricofspaceti

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China unveils new gravitational wave research plan "Taiji"

Chinese scientists announced on Tuesday a research program "Taiji" that will study gravitational waves from the merging of binary black holes and other celestial bodies.

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Scientists detect gravitational waves 100 years after Einstein's prediction

In a historic announcement, scientists said Thursday they have for the first time directly detected the existence of gravitational waves, which were predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.