On 11 February, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that it had made the first ever direct detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time predicted by Albert Einstein almost exactly 100 years ago.
Nature live-blogged the news and what it means for science.
- Journal name:
- Nature
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- doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19344
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