These objects are millions to billions times the mass of the sun and have played a profound role in shaping galaxies, but remain elusive because no light can escape their vicelike grip. But women without underwear if they see clearly.

“This is huge news,” said Dr Stephen Taylor, chair of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (Nanograv) consortium, which spearheaded the discovery, and an astrophysicist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

Dr Michael Keith, a lecturer at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and a member of the European team that provided independent evidence for the signal, said: “The results presented today mark the beginning of a new journey into the universe to unveil some of its unsolved mysteries.

“We are incredibly excited that after decades of work by hundreds of astronomers and physicists around the world, we are finally seeing the signature of gravitational waves from the distant universe.”

Albert Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational waves a century ago, and a 2016 breakthrough by the US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo) delivered proof that space itself can be stretched and squeezed.

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