The black holes were 29 and 36 times larger than the mass of the sum and they gave off gravitational waves as they spiraled into one another.
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The gravitational waves, defined as ripples in space-time, is said to be created by the merging of two black holes.
This discovery, apart from vindicating Einstein, is the first proof that binary black-hole systems-the existence of which was always treated as a theoretical probability-are materially real. “We look forward to the future of the science of the field”. “We did it”, said David Reitze, head of LIGO Laboratory, the scientific facility that found them, to applause at a crowded news briefing in DC.
A billion years ago, a billion light years away, two black holes collided, sending waves of energy hurtling through space.
Tianqin, China’s domestic gravitational wave research project initiated by the Sun Yat-sen University in July 2015, is awaiting governmental approval. Creighton started working with the U.S.-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in 1994.
“The search is over but the dawn of gravitational wave astronomy has begun”.
Physicist Rainer Weiss said: “The description of this observation is beautifully described in the Einstein theory of general relativity formulated 100 years ago and comprises the first test of the theory in strong gravitation”.
It confirms that massive objects like black holes and neutron stars warp space-time around themselves, and when two collide the distortions ripple outward at the speed of light.
It is believed this detection will allow scientists to detect what happened at the Big Bang as electromagnetic waves can only travel back 400,000 years after the Big Bang occurred. Well, once again, Einstein was right, proving that another one of the concepts in his General Theory is correct. Gravitational waves carry completely different information about phenomena in the universe.
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The Reddit user continued: “Now some people built a really sensitive measuring thing that uses lasers to see them, and they just proved that their device works by seeing ripples from a really big splash”.
