Gravitational-wave astronomy is budding with possibilities, such as the use of gravitational-wave sources as distance markers for measuring cosmic expansion. A new report from Salvatore Vitale from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and Hsin-Yu Chen from Harvard University shows that a specific kind of gravitational-wave source—involving the merger of a black hole with a neutron star—could be the best target for determining the expansion rate.
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