![]() ![]() It is also the first of many future observations that will look at the universe in a completely new way. It is not only confirmation of general relativity, though. ![]() ![]() It is the first direct confirmation of the prediction from Einstein’s General Relativity that matter and energy determine the motion of bodies by warping the fabric of spacetime itself, and in so doing, emanate ripples when massive bodies are accelerated through that space. Gravitational waves are a century-old (almost exactly) prediction now confirmed by a huge number of relentless, and brilliant people after many years of hard work. It is on par with the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle which provided the missing evidence for a prediction of the Standard Model of particle physics. What’s the significance of discovering gravitational waves? Researchers concluded the detected gravitational waves resulted from two black holes colliding. ![]()
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