11-02-2016 21:14 via indianexpress.com

In a major breakthrough, Albert Einstein’s gravitational waves detected by LIGO scientific collaboration

Dr. David Reitze, Executive Director of the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech, shows the merging of two black holes at a news conference to discuss the detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time hypothesized by physicist Albert Einstein a century ago, in Washington. The waves were detected by twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave detectors (LIGO) in Louisiana and Washington states in September 2015. (Source: Reuters)
Scientists have for the first time detected gravitationa
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