Getting heavy with gravitational waves

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) wanted a couple of posters celebrating the landmark detection of Gravitational Waves to display at the annual meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS)… and I was more than happy to oblige.

I had written several articles on gravitational wave detection (for MetroCosm, Astronomy Now Magazine and for the STFC), so, being already up to speed with the subject, I did the research for this one myself.

I always find that having complete autonomy on the creation of an infographic (research, writing and illustration) to be most satisfying way of working (with the information vetted by proper scientist-type experts afterwards, of course). Fortunately, barring a few tweaks correcting my interpretation of wave directionality, few changes were required and the posters went on a jolly old adventure to Boston, MA… sadly, I didn’t get to go with them.

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