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gravitational wave

propagating spacetime ripple
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Summary

gravitational wave ranks in the top 0.75% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,500 views/month, #585 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Made from material: spacetime[2]
  • Subclass of: radiation[3], wave[4], spacetime event[5]
  • Part of: spacetime[6]
  • Commons category: Gravitational waves[7]
  • Time of discovery or invention: September 14, 2015[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Gravitational waves[9]
  • Described at URL: https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/ESSAYS/Boughn/boughn.html[10], https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/grav_radiation.html[11]
  • Topic has template: Template:Gravitational wave observatories[12]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/gravitational-waves[13]
  • Has effect: gravitational wave event[14]
  • Different from: gravity wave[15]
  • Speed: 299,792,458[16]

Why It Matters

gravitational wave has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Putnik · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → gravitacines-bangos
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: gravitacines-bangos"
  2. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → gravitational-waves
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: gravitational-waves, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289934314|gravitational waves (#289934314)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0366109-gravitacni-vlny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0366109-gravitacni-vlny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → spacetime
    Subclass of → radiation, wave, spacetime event
    Part of → —
    Has effect → gravitational wave event
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ Yso id: 28903, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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