No space-based gravitational wave observatory exists…yet. But that hasn’t stopped a team of astronomers from demonstrating how the gravitational universe might look, using simulated data to create a “synthetic gravitational sky.”
Astronomers transfixed the public in April 2019 when they released the first-ever image of a black hole, produced by radio wave data from a collaboration of telescopes around the world known collectively as the Event Horizon Telescope.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
NASA/ESA/Pieter van Dokkum et al./Astrophysical Journal Letters 2023