Einstein Was Right: Ripples Detected in Gravity

The result of that cosmic pileup was a binary black hole in a concentrated space so massive it distorted the fabric of space-time around it. The two waves that scientists detected past year marked the first time that such long theorized gravitational waves could be directly observed as they passed through the Earth.

Pakistani-born astrophysicist Dr Nergis Mavalvala was among the team of eagled-eyed scientists who, for the first time, observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves.

Einstein’s famous general theory of relativity, which was featured about 100 years ago, explained that spacetime is a single dynamic entity. The scientists said that best part is that the discovery will help science projects with as researchers will be able to talk about space science with more clarity.

It was in sharp contrast to the Newtonian theory of Gravitation which negates the existence of any gravitational waves and postulates that physical interaction propagates at infinite speed.

ELISA, or “Laser Interferometer Space Antenna”, is going to be created to detect and observe gravitational waves with three satellites arranged in a triangle that sends a laser beam between each other. As objects get closer to a massive object, like a black hole, time becomes ever more warped.

“We have to wait years in order to have the tools for such a low “internal noise” to be able to detect the gravitational waves produced after the Big Bang”. We’ve entered a whole new world for astronomy. But gravitational waves would provide extremely beneficial hints as these waves carry information about the interior of the neutron star all the way to earth. And studying gravitational waves could fundamentally change the way humans learn more about these extreme objects in the universe.

But it wasn’t until two decades later that they started building two LIGO detectors – one in Hanford, Wash., and one in Livingston, La.

The “in principle” approval for the LIGO-India project for research on gravitational waves – a discovery that is regarded as the breakthrough of the century – is piloted by the Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology (DST), a press release said. There are large crumbs of dark matter floating around, and it is possible that they too might be coalescing together like the black holes that were captured.

Scientists have detected the first gravitational wave signals, confirming Einstein’s last unproven theory. We can see them, for example, by boat on a quiet lake and we notice that the surface of the water forms small waves that accompany us in the direction we travel.

Some of the researchers involved in the gravitational wave discovery, such as California State University Fullerton’s David Bowman, even believe that it could give birth to “an entirely new branch of astronomy”, one that really deep-dives into how the universe came about.