Gravitational waves exist in spacetime

Before joining Sheffield he worked for five years at LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), in the US and for his PhD he worked on the American axion search experiment looking for dark matter.

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves in space time was proven after two Latinas discovered it by observing two colliding black holes.

“Einstein then spent 10 years trying to include acceleration in the theory and published his theory of general relativity in 1915”.

He continued, “It’s the first time the Universe has spoken to us through gravitational waves”.

The gravitational waves detected are from the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago.

A century long endurance is paid off, as the highly elusive “gravitational waves” have finally been detected. obviously there is great ripples within the global physics community, astrophysicists and cosmologists. Louisiana State University physicist Gabriela Gonzale hailed the discovery during the conference as opening a new era in astronomy. When massive but compact objects like black holes or neutron stars collide, they send gravity ripples across the universe.

The merging of those two black holes is now the focus of the science world.

A Scots scientist whose “creative genius” played a key role in the project to detect gravitational waves was unable to celebrate the historic discovery with his colleagues because he is suffering from dementia.

If this happens, the two beams of light will arrive back at the starting point at different times, the wavelengths won’t cancel each other out and the signal will be detected, which is exactly what happened.

“We could point the best telescopes, sensitive to more or less any electromagnetic wavelength of light, at this system and probably see nothing”, said Nergis Mavalvala, a professor of astrophysics at MIT.

“Our group has been solving Einstein’s equations on supercomputers to predict the precise form of the signal that should be seen”.

“Up until now, we have been deaf to the universe”, Reitze said.

A gravitational wave would stretch space in one dimension and shrink it in another at right angles. Einstein later doubted himself and even questioned in the 1930s whether they really do exist, but by the 1960s scientists had concluded they probably do, Ashtekar said.