The Supernova That Measured The Universe

In 2015 astronomers successfully predicted the appearance of a supernova within a couple weeks. How did they do it? Win your Ultimate Tech Bundle by entering Fasthosts’ Techie Test here: https://fasthosts.com/veritasium This video was sponsored by Fasthosts. Special thanks to Geraint Lewis for consulting on gravitational lensing. Check out his>>>

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A burst of gravitational waves hit our planet. Astronomers have no clue where it’s from.

A mystical cosmic event may have ever-so-slightly extended and squeezed our world recently. On Jan. 14, astronomers found a split-second burst of, distortions in space-time … however scientists do not know where this burst originated from. The gravitational wave signal, got by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the>>>

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