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'We Can Hear the Universe': Scientists Detect Gravitational Waves, Predicted by Einstein - by Amina Khan/ Science/ Los Angeles Times/ latimes.com
"More than a billion years ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes surrendered to one another’s inexorable attraction and collided with such force that it disturbed the very fabric of the universe.
On Thursday, scientists announced to the world that they had detected the ripple-like gravitational waves that still course from this violent event and simultaneously confirmed a prediction made by Albert Einstein a century ago.
The detection, made with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, known as LIGO, is the culmination of a decades-long search for signs of this elusive phenomenon — and an achievement some said was on par with the discovery of the Higgs boson, which earned its theorists a Nobel Prize in 2013.
The discovery, described in a paper in Physical Review Letters, will open a new window onto the universe, said David Reitze, executive director of LIGO, which was designed and built by researchers at Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..."
The collision of two black holes is depicted in a computer simulation. Scientists have detected evidence of gravitational waves that resulted from such a collision more than a billion years ago. (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes)
Richard
"More than a billion years ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes surrendered to one another’s inexorable attraction and collided with such force that it disturbed the very fabric of the universe.
On Thursday, scientists announced to the world that they had detected the ripple-like gravitational waves that still course from this violent event and simultaneously confirmed a prediction made by Albert Einstein a century ago.
The detection, made with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, known as LIGO, is the culmination of a decades-long search for signs of this elusive phenomenon — and an achievement some said was on par with the discovery of the Higgs boson, which earned its theorists a Nobel Prize in 2013.
The discovery, described in a paper in Physical Review Letters, will open a new window onto the universe, said David Reitze, executive director of LIGO, which was designed and built by researchers at Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..."
The collision of two black holes is depicted in a computer simulation. Scientists have detected evidence of gravitational waves that resulted from such a collision more than a billion years ago. (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes)
Richard