5 Questions
Who first proposed the concept of gravitational waves?
Oliver Heaviside
In which year were gravitational waves later predicted by Albert Einstein?
1916
What type of energy do gravitational waves transport?
Gravitational radiation
According to Newton's law of universal gravitation, do gravitational waves exist?
No, they are contradicted by Newton's law
What observation led to the first indirect evidence for the existence of gravitational waves?
Orbital decay of the Hulse–Taylor binary pulsar
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