As in, scientists havent yet done so.

Instead, theyve been relegating to witnessing its gravitational effects on other objects.

These waves would cause tiny oscillations in normal matter, which can be detected by gravitational wave detectors.

The LIGO facility near Livingston, Louisiana.

The LIGO facility near Livingston, Louisiana.Photo: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab / Wikimedia Commons

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A mosaic of the cosmos made with Euclid Space Telescope data.

An artist’s concept of the ALICE experiment and the Milky Way.

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