2017 Nobel Prize goes to scientists who detected ripples in the fabric of space and time

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was just awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C Barish, and Kip S Thorne for their decades-long work that resulted in the detection of the long-sought echoes from distant collisions between two black holes.

Weiss, Barish, and Thorne’s work — along with the effort of hundreds of other scientists — has effectively ushered in a new era of physics in the space sciences.

The three researchers all contributed key findings that led to discoveries made by the  Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), two twin observatories in Louisiana and Washington. 

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Source: Mashable
Original Post: 2017 Nobel Prize goes to scientists who detected ripples in the fabric of space and time