An artist's rendering of an outburst on an ultra-magnetic neutron star, also called a magnetar is shown in this handout provided by NASA February 10, 2016.
A century ago, physicist Albert Einstein proposed the existence of gravitational waves, small ripples in the space-time continuum that dash across the universe at the speed of light. But scientists have been able to find only indirect evidence of their existence (Reuters)
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