For the first time, experiments have seen both light and gravitational waves released by a single celestial crash.
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Scientists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for their roles in creating the LIGO experiment.
The third detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes provides a new test of the theory of general relativity.
A new tool lets astronomers listen to the universe for the first time.
Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.
Perplexed by gravity? Don’t let it get you down.
From Science Node, Feb. 17, 2016: Einstein predicted gravitational waves over 100 years ago. Resources provided by the Open Science Grid, of which Fermilab is an active member, are helping LIGO prove he was right.
From The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2016: A team of scientists announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
The experiment confirms the last piece of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Let yourself be pulled into the weird world of black holes.