Everything You Need to Know About Gravitational Waves in 2026

🔴 [Interview+] No YT ads. Bonus Part. FREE for everyone https://www.patreon.com/posts/153304552 What's going on with gravitational wave observations now? What's the state of LIGO? What new science can we get from it? How does gravitational energy escape the black holes? How will LIGO work together with Vera Rubin? Finding out all this and more in this interview. 🟣 Guest: Dr. Keefe Mitman https://keefemitman.github.io/ 00:00 Intro 02:04 Detections of gravitational waves 05:37 Where does the "lost mass" come from? 09:27 GW250114 11:45 What makes a good black hole merger 18:21 LIGO maintenance and Vera Rubin collabs 21:07 Measuring cosmic distances 24:37 Primordial graviational waves 27:25 What's next for LIGO 30:56 Current obsessions 33:58 Final thoughts 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://www.universetoday.com/podcast Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.