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The 52 pages that link to Gravitational wave, each with the reason it gives.

• General relativityRelated: Their detection directly tested a dynamic prediction of general relativity.

• Albert EinsteinRelated: Einstein’s general theory predicted them; their direct detection came a century later.

• Einstein field equationsRelated: The field equations predict these waves and determine how they propagate.

• Galaxy mergerRelated: The final coalescence of supermassive black holes in merger remnants can emit gravitational waves.

• PulsarRelated: Binary pulsars and pulsar timing arrays provide independent ways to study gravitational waves.

• Supermassive black holeRelated: Merging supermassive black holes should generate low-frequency waves detectable through pulsar timing.

• GravitonRelated: Quantized gravitational waves would be described as collections of gravitons.

• Pulsar timingRelated: A passing wave changes the apparent pulse arrival times across a pulsar timing array.

• Hierarchical structure formationRelated: Black-hole mergers inside assembling galaxies contribute to the gravitational-wave background.

• Loop quantum gravityRelated: Possible quantum-gravity corrections to gravitational-wave propagation are among proposed observational probes.

• Binary pulsarRelated: Orbital decay in certain binaries matches energy loss predicted from their emission.

• Jocelyn Bell BurnellRelated: Binary-pulsar observations provided indirect evidence for gravitational-wave energy loss before direct detection.

• NatureRelated: Nature has reported major discoveries and follow-up research on gravitational waves.

• Primordial black holeRelated: A primordial origin has been considered for some black-hole merger signals.

• Frame-draggingRelated: They are dynamical spacetime disturbances, unlike the stationary dragging around a steadily rotating body.

• Kip ThorneRelated: Thorne studied how such waves arise, travel, and carry information about their sources.

• Electroweak epochRelated: A sufficiently strong first-order transition could have produced a detectable stochastic gravitational-wave background.

• Antony HewishRelated: Pulsar timing later enabled indirect evidence for gravitational waves from a binary system.

• Cyclic modelRelated: A primordial background could distinguish some cyclic scenarios from conventional early-universe histories.

• Tests of general relativityRelated: LIGO and other observatories measure waveforms that can be compared with relativistic predictions.

• Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.Related: The binary’s shrinking orbit matched energy loss predicted from gravitational-wave emission.

• Curved spacetimeRelated: Their detection confirms that changing curvature can travel through spacetime.

• History of general relativityRelated: The theory implied these waves, whose direct detection came a century after its formulation.

• Russell Alan HulseRelated: The binary’s shrinking orbit matched energy loss through gravitational radiation.

• Geometrized unit systemRelated: Waveform calculations commonly express source masses and times as lengths.

• Mathematics of general relativityRelated: Linearized field equations predict these waves, whose detections test the theory.

• Physics beyond the Standard ModelRelated: Early-universe gravitational-wave signals could test phase transitions predicted by new physics.

• RelativityRelated: Their detection confirmed a dynamic prediction of general relativity.

• Rotating black holeRelated: Mergers involving spinning black holes imprint spin-dependent signals.