Scientists Discover Gravitational Waves

Gravitational waves are a measure of strain in space the effect of the motion of large masses that extends the space-time fabric, a way of viewing space and time in a single continuum that is interweaved.

The signal was so strong that Drago didn’t believe it was real and assumed to be an injection.

Dr. Gabriela Gonzales and France A. Cordova discovered gravitational waves at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) as they observed two colliding black holes.

I greatly admire the gravitational wave pioneers who had the vision and confidence that this is possible, and the team who made it happen! It’s the confirmation scientists needed of a theory predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity 100 years ago.

“Gravitational wave observations will undoubtedly continue to tell us new things about the universe we live in”.

He said they were made by measuring the tiny disturbances the waves made to space and time as they passed through the earth.

“It’s the first time the universe has spoken to us with gravitational waves”, David Reitze, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, said today in a news briefing.

Gravitational waves spew out from places like black holes and dying stars. “It’s like we’ve nearly been deaf to it forever”, said Jim O’Leary, of the Maryland Science Center.

Einstein’s general theory of relativity had then predicted the presence of gravitational waves.

Dr. Orban notes that, following Einstein’s thought experiment, it took until 2005 for astrophysicists to see some circumstantial evidence of gravitational waves.

Physicist Szabi Marka, a LIGO collaborator based at Columbia University, gushed about the coming scientific revolution to a crowded Columbia lecture hall in NY. Now, he’s an associate professor of physics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Now, scientists will be able to listen for ripples in spacetime caused by some of the biggest and most energetic events in our universe. According to the researcher, these objects are behind the changing shape of the universe.

The dense objects whipped up to almost the speed of light before colliding, sending out a stupendous release of gravitational wave energy that eventually reached the Earth, 1.5 billion light years away.