Two white dwarf stars orbiting each other in a death grip

05.30.05
A scientist using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found that two white dwarf stars orbiting each other in a death grip, destined to merge spectacularly, may be flooding space right now with gravitational waves. These waves are ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein but never detected directly.
NASA - Orbiting Stars Flooding Space With Exotic Gravitational Waves
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