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An example of metaphor in scence journalism:

"…because you have billions of galaxies, many, many of them have pairs of supermassive black holes in them, some of those must be emitting a lot of gravitational waves, and the combined hum from all these pairs of supermassive gravitational black holes in the entire observable universe, together, gives the signal…"

Nature Podcast

Dr Davide Castelvecchi, Senior Reporter, Physical Sciences, Nature was talking on an episode of the Nature podcast

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.