Article archive / October 2017
Originally published: . Volume 8, No. 10. Source pages: 6.
Two Louisiana State University physicists working at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), Professor Rainer Weiss, Barry Barrish, in collaboration with Professor Kip Thorne from California, have earned the 2017 Nobel Prize. The team detected gravitational waves, a ripple in space–time, caused by colliding black holes, 1.3 billion light years away. Einstein predicted this in his theory of general relativity.
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