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She has been working on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory (LIGO) since 1991, and was a member of the team that announced LIGO's first detection of gravitational waves in 2016.

When the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) made the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015, for instance, scientists were able to trace them back to two colliding black holes weighing 36 and 29 solar masses, the lightweight cousins of the supermassive black holes that power quasars.

Not exact matches

The first direct detection of gravitational waves will open a new window on black holes and introduce a new era in astronomy.

The first - ever direct detection of gravitational waves, our top story in 2016, launched a long - dreamed - of kind of astronomy capable of «unlocking otherwise unknowable secrets of the cosmos,» as physics writer Emily Conover puts it.

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 annogravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory in 2015, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences annoGravitational - wave Observatory in 2015, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Oct. 3.

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.

All the previous gravitational - wave detections since the first in September 2015 had been the result of two merging black holes — objects much more massive than a neutron star — which have left only gravitational waves as fleeting clues of their merger.

On 11 February, researchers in the US announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space - time that are the final unconfirmed prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

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).

But 2016's announcement of the first detection of gravitational waves, produced 1.3 billion years ago in the collision of two monstrous black holes, has given scientists a whole new way of observing the heavens.

«The emitted gravitational - wave signal and its potential detection will inform researchers about the formation process of the first supermassive black holes in the still very young universe, and may settle some — and raise new — important questions on the history of our universe,» he says.

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.

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.

This morning, the National Science Foundation and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) teamed up for a celebration at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Amid a large media contingent, and with tens of thousands watching via the Internet, they announced the first detection of gravitaGravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) teamed up for a celebration at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Amid a large media contingent, and with tens of thousands watching via the Internet, they announced the first detection of gravitationalgravitational waves.

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.

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.

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 montIn 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 montin Physics earlier this month.

This detection has, in a single stroke and for the first time, validated Einstein's theory of general relativity for very strong fields, established the nature of gravitational waves, demonstrated the existence of black holes with masses 30 times that of our sun, and opened a new window on the universe.

In February, the LIGO - Virgo collaboration announced the first successful detection of gravitational waves.

But its announcement was delayed due to the time required to understand two other discoveries: a LIGO - Virgo three - detector observation of gravitational waves from another binary black hole merger on August 14, and the first - ever detection of a binary neutron star merger in light and gravitational waves on August 17.

«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.

The first direct detection of gravitational waves occurred in mid-September 2015 (but announced February 11, 2016) with twin LIGO detectors in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA (both USA) when ripples of spacetime from the last fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes with masses 29 and 36 solar masses combined to form a 62 - solar mass black hole with 3 solar masses of energy radiated away as gravitational waves in that last fraction of a second.

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

A Caltech Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for his instrumental role in the first direct detection of ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves, Dr. Thorne's work is making history and ushering in an exciting new era Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for his instrumental role in the first direct detection of ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves, Dr. Thorne's work is making history and ushering in an exciting new era gravitational waves, Dr. Thorne's work is making history and ushering in an exciting new era in astronomy.

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.

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.

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

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.