
Another eight or so suns’ worth of mass and energy disappeared into gravitational waves, ripples of the space-time fabric, in a split-second of cosmic frenzy, ringing the universe like a bell… — Dennis Overbye
image credit: N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics; Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration