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
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.
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