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Scientists say that the discovery is the biggest of the century — far more important than that of the Higgs boson
Gravitational ripples in the fabric of spacetime, first predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years ago, have now been detected by scientists who believe the discovery opens new vistas into the “dark” side of the Universe.
Physicists around the world confirmed that they had detected unambiguous signals of gravitational waves emanating from the collision of two massive black holes 1.5 billion light years away in deep space.
As the two black holes spiralled into one another in a violent collision that was over in a second, immense amounts of matter were instantly converted into energy, which sent shock waves travelling through space for 1.5 billion years until they were picked up by gravitational-wave instruments on Earth.
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Gravitational waves find could let scientists build a time machine
The detection of gravitational waves not only confirms Einstein's general theory of relativity, it amounts to the first direct detection of a pair of colliding black holes, the mysterious structures in space that are so dense they exert a gravitational force from which nothing —not even light — can escape.
One senior British physicist described the breakthrough as the greatest scientific discovery so far this century. It is, he said, bigger than the discovery of the Higgs boson because of its ramifications for our basic understanding of the Universe and the possibility it creates for new ways of observing the hidden regions of space.
Two sets of super-sensitive instruments in two American observatories both detected the same sub-atomic movements in the spacetime continuum — the mathematical model that weaves space and time into a single entity — caused by the gravitational waves as they passed through the Earth.
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Gravitational ripples in the fabric of spacetime, first predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years ago, have now been detected by scientists who believe the discovery opens new vistas into the “dark” side of the Universe.
Physicists around the world confirmed that they had detected unambiguous signals of gravitational waves emanating from the collision of two massive black holes 1.5 billion light years away in deep space.
As the two black holes spiralled into one another in a violent collision that was over in a second, immense amounts of matter were instantly converted into energy, which sent shock waves travelling through space for 1.5 billion years until they were picked up by gravitational-wave instruments on Earth.
Read more
Gravitational waves find could let scientists build a time machine
The detection of gravitational waves not only confirms Einstein's general theory of relativity, it amounts to the first direct detection of a pair of colliding black holes, the mysterious structures in space that are so dense they exert a gravitational force from which nothing —not even light — can escape.
One senior British physicist described the breakthrough as the greatest scientific discovery so far this century. It is, he said, bigger than the discovery of the Higgs boson because of its ramifications for our basic understanding of the Universe and the possibility it creates for new ways of observing the hidden regions of space.
Two sets of super-sensitive instruments in two American observatories both detected the same sub-atomic movements in the spacetime continuum — the mathematical model that weaves space and time into a single entity — caused by the gravitational waves as they passed through the Earth.
@Levina @Skull and Bones @anant_s @everyone
