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First cosmic discovery in both gravitational waves and light

Credit: Karan Jani/Georgia Tech

A ground­break­ing announce­ment was made on 16th of Octo­ber by the LIGO Sci­en­tific Col­lab­o­ra­tion, Virgo Col­lab­o­ra­tion, and its part­ners. For the very first time, both grav­i­ta­tional waves and elec­tro­mag­netic waves have been observed from the same cos­mic event, the inspi­ral and col­li­sion of two neu­tron stars. Con­tinue read­ing "First cos­mic dis­cov­ery in both grav­i­ta­tional waves and light"

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Nobel Prize goes to Gravitational Waves

Credit: The SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) Project

On Octo­ber 3, this year’s Nobel Prize in physics was awarded jointly to physi­cists Rainer Weiss, emer­i­tus pro­fes­sor at MIT, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Bar­ish, both emer­i­tus pro­fes­sors at Cal­tech 
"for deci­sive con­tri­bu­tions to the LIGO detec­tor and the obser­va­tion of grav­i­ta­tional waves," as the Nobel Prize Com­mit­tee put it.
Con­tinue read­ing "Nobel Prize goes to Grav­i­ta­tional Waves"

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