Gravity ripples across universe in waves! Einstein was right, again!
Y esterday, 100 years later, scientists from Caltech, MIT and LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational wave Observatory), announced in Washington that gravitational waves exist, predicted by Einstein in 1916, a century ago. It’s one of the most significant discoveries of the decade. Scientists who believe the discovery opens new vistas into the ‘dark’ side of the Universe. Scientists said they detected gravitational waves coming from two Black Holes – infinitely dense objects whose existence was foreseen by Einstein – that orbited one another, spiraled inward and smashed together. They said that the waves which detected in LIGO were the product of a collision between two Black Holes 30 times as massive as sun and located 1.3 billion Light Years from Earth. What are Gravitational Waves ? These are waves produced by disturbances in the fabric of space and time due to movement of a massive object like a Black Hole. They would appear like ripples in a pond. What is LIGO ? The La...