Ripples of Love
A short poem, inspired by the detection of gravitational waves
Supercomputer simulation of gravitational waves emerging from a binary black hole
Credit: Image by Henze/NASA via Wikimedia CommonsAdvertisement
Two black holes collide in the distance
making waves across the universe.
Some billion years later
we hear the sound of their union, a chirp.
The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Sara Goudarzi is a Brooklyn, N.Y.–based writer and author of the debut novel The Almond in the Apricot.
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