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[Interview] Practically FREE Primordial Gravitational Waves Detector

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Not every new space mission needs a separate launch and dedicated hardware. With this proposal, there's a huge potential for finding signals from primordial black holes by just using signals from a spacecraft flying to Uranus or Neptune. No additional hardware required.

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  • 00:00:00 Intro
  • 00:02:39 Gravitational waves detector on a Uranus mission
  • 00:15:05 Gravitational wavelengths
  • 00:22:54 How could the mission be better
  • 00:35:25 Direct collapse of black holes
  • 00:50:37 Observing black hole accretion disks
  • 00:58:59 Current obsessions
  • 01:05:35 Final thoughts

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