Sentences with phrase «confirmed detection of a gravitational wave»

Six days after scientists went public on 11 February 2016 with the first confirmed detection of a gravitational wave, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced plans to build a gravitational wave detector in India.

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It was the first confirmed detection of such a merger and only the fifth direct detection ever of gravitational waves, predicted more than a century ago by Albert Einstein.

Because of Virgo's loss of sensitivity with the wire suspensions, it will not be able to detect gravitational waves independently, but it will be able to help confirm a potential detection made by LIGO and locate sources in the sky with greater accuracy.

Physicists have for months been buzzing about the possible detection of gravitational waves — a finding that would confirm one of the key predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Only two years ago, a land - based gravitational wave observatory confirmed Einstein's prediction that gravitational fluctuations from moving matter excite infinitesimal ripples in space — this first detection of gravitational waves earned the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The detection by the upgraded Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (Advanced LIGO), along with two subsequent gravitational wave discoveries, confirmed a major prediction of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and heralded a new era in physics, allowing scientists to study the universe in a new way by using gravity instGravitational - Wave Observatory (Advanced LIGO), along with two subsequent gravitational wave discoveries, confirmed a major prediction of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and heralded a new era in physics, allowing scientists to study the universe in a new way by using gravity instgravitational wave discoveries, confirmed a major prediction of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and heralded a new era in physics, allowing scientists to study the universe in a new way by using gravity instead of light.

The LIGO experiment confirms the first detection of gravitational waves from two neutron stars in collision

The LIGO experiment confirms the third detection of gravitational waves from two black holes in collision The GRG - UIB group, led by Alicia Sintes, a member of MultiDark, participates in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Now, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration — which consists of over a thousand scientists around the world — has confirmed the third gravitational wave detection («GW170104»), meaning we're at the cusp of a completely new kind of astronomy.