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But it was being upgraded at the time of the historic first detection of gravitational waves by the twin laboratories of Virgo's US cousin, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), and was also out of action for two subsequent sightings.

Three American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that led to the first detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory in 2015, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Oct. 3.

Not exact matches

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.

The observation, via tell - tale swirls in maps of relic light from the big bang, represent the first clear detection of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Albert Einstein.

«By combining the detection of gravitational waves with simulations we could ultimately work out when and how the first seeds of supermassive black holes formed.»

A new observation of gravitational waves, announced by scientists with the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, follows their first detection, reported earlier this year (SN: 3gravitational waves, announced by scientists with the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, follows their first detection, reported earlier this year (SN: 3Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, follows their first detection, reported earlier this year (SN: 3/5/16, p. 6).

In 2016, scientists with the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves, produced by two merging black holes (SN: 3Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves, produced by two merging black holes (SN: 3gravitational waves, produced by two merging black holes (SN: 3/5/16, p. 6).

Through these efforts, astronomers are attempting to understand recently discovered phenomena such as the first detections of gravitational waves from neutron star collisions and the accompanying electromagnetic fireworks as well as regular stars being engulfed by supermassive black holes.

Physicists have announced their fourth - ever detection of gravitational waves, and the first such discovery made together by observatories in Europe and the United States.

Many physicists were surprised by the selection; speculation online predicted that the prize would be awarded for the first detection of gravitational waves (SN: 3/5/16, p. 6), announced on February 11.

After the first direct detection of gravitational waves that was announced last February by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and made news all over the world, Luciano Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Cecilia Chirenti (Federal University of ABC in Santo André, Brazil) set out to test whether the observed signal could have been a gravastar or not.

Like the historic first detection announced this past February, these gravitational waves were also generated by the merger of two black holes.

This image is part of an incredible observation that was announced this month: the first ever detection of a cosmic event by both light and gravitational waves.

The first two detections of gravitational waves generated by the collision of two black holes were reported last year.

In February of last year, the project announced the first detection of gravitational waves caused by two black holes merging — a discovery that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics earlier this month.

The very first detection of gravitational waves on 14 September 2015: Signals received by the LIGO instruments at Hanford, Washington (left) and Livingston, Louisiana (right) and comparisons of these signals to the signals expected due to a black hole merger event.

«With this first joint detection by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, we have taken one step further into the gravitational - wave cosmos,» said David H. Reitze, who works at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and is executive director of the LIGO Laboratory, in a statement.

Gravitational waves were discovered only in 2016 and the first detection of these ripples in spacetime were caused by the collision of black holes.

The first direct detections of gravitational waves in late 2015 were made possible by a dedicated forty year quest to design, build, and operate LIGO, the Laser... Read more»

The first direct detections of gravitational waves in late 2015 were made possible by a dedicated forty year quest to design, build, and operate LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wavegravitational waves in late 2015 were made possible by a dedicated forty year quest to design, build, and operate LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - waveGravitational - wave Observatory.

The first detection of gravitational waves was made last year by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, which picked up the distinctive vibration of two sun - sized black holes merging into a largegravitational waves was made last year by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, which picked up the distinctive vibration of two sun - sized black holes merging into a largeGravitational - Wave Observatory, which picked up the distinctive vibration of two sun - sized black holes merging into a larger black hole.

Researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced today (Feb. 11) that they had made history's first direct detection of gravitational waves, enigmatic ripples in space - time whose existence was first predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's famous theory of generaGravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced today (Feb. 11) that they had made history's first direct detection of gravitational waves, enigmatic ripples in space - time whose existence was first predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's famous theory of generagravitational waves, enigmatic ripples in space - time whose existence was first predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's famous theory of general relativity.

Physicists still hope to surf a passing gravitational wave, which would amount to the first direct detection of these entities, in contrast to the indirect effects seen by BICEP2 and Hulse and Taylor.

When I first heard the news about the detection on 14th September 2015 of the gravitational waves from two colliding black holes by the LIGO observatories I was incredulous.