Gravitational Waves Detected at LIGO
Researchers from the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and from the Virgo interferometer
report in Physical Review Letters
the first direct detection of gravitational waves—faint distortions in
the geometry of spacetime that were predicted by Einstein in 1916.
A Physics Viewpoint
commentary by Emanuele Berti of the University of Mississippi discusses
the findings and explains why they will open a new era of observational
astrophysics.
APS News is also providing additional coverage of this groundbreaking discovery.
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