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Scientists detect gravitational waves caused by two black holes colliding 1.3billion years ago in historic experiment proving the theory of general relativity



Einstein was right: Scientists detect gravitational waves caused by two black holes colliding 1.3billion years ago in historic experiment proving the theory of general relativity

• Scientists detected the warping of space-time caused by a collision of two black holes for first time
• The historic signals were picked up by two advanced Ligo detectors in Louisiana and Washington
• Proves gravitational waves - ripples in fabric of space and time produced by violent events - do exist
• Existence of gravitational waves was first predicted by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity in 1915

Scientists have spotted gravitational waves in a historic discovery hailed as 'the biggest scientific breakthrough of the century'.

For the first time, researchers have detected the warping of space-time caused by a collision of two massive black holes - something first predicted in Einstein's Theory of General Relativity in 1915.

These gravitational waves, created 1.3 billion light-years from Earth, help confirm that our universe was created by the Big Bang, and will give an unprecedented glimpse into its beginning.

'Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it,' said California Institute of Technology physicist David Reitze, triggering applause at a packed news conference in Washington that followed weeks of speculation over the announcement.

This is the holy grail of science,' said Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Carlos Lousto. 'The last time anything like this happened was in 1888 when Heinrich Hertz detected the radio waves that had been predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's field-equations of electromagnetism in 1865,' added Durham University physicist Tom McLeish.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ripples-space-



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