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Moon Bell: A New Way to Catch Gravitational Waves ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Fundamental Noise and Gravitational-Wave Sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA)"
arXiv:2508.18437 · 2025-08-25 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · General Relativity Instrumentation
Moon Bell: How the stillness of our satellite will allow us to hear the gravitational hum of the Universe.
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The Moon is the quietest corner of the Solar System. No earthquakes, no oceans, no wind. Now physicists have figured out how to turn this silence into a giant gravitational wave detector, capable of hearing black hole mergers from the very edge of the Universe. 🚀🌖

🎯 In the 1960s, [scientist:Joseph Weber]Joseph Weber[/scientist] built the first detector—an aluminum cylinder bell. Today, we've turned the whole Moon into a bell.

Scientists
Adam RiessBrian SchmidtEdwin HubbleGeorges LemaîtreMaarten SchmidtSaul Perlmutter
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gravitational waves black hole neutron star expansion of the universe
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Hubble's lawHawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equationsFermi–Dirac statistics
Original: arXiv:2508.18437 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds