Slide Words: How Are Gravity Waves Formed?

Slide Image: The image shows a computer visualization of a collision between two black holes, which is one of the violent phenomena that new equipment might be able to detect. A series of concentric lines radiate from and around several areas and are farther apart the more distant they are from the centers.

Credit: Numerical simulation: Max Planck, Institute of Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Scientific Visualization: W. Benger (Zuse Institute Berlin/Albert Einstein Institute)