The scientific breakthrough was announced Thursday at a press conference of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The special detectors demonstrated gravitational waves caused by the collision of two black holes and the waves are doing a billion years to reach the earth.
The rumors that had found something special, went around for weeks. Physicists from Amsterdam and astronomers from Nijmegen were also in enabling groundbreaking research.
Important
Although we are not in everyday life makes of gravitational waves, they are very important. When a big shock in the universe, such as the explosion of a star, vibrates the ‘backbone’ of the universe. The energy is thrown on all sides, similar to the waves after a stone into a pond. These ripples are the gravitational waves.
The waves contain information about the source, such as the Big Bang, and thus about the origin of everything.
The gravitational waves are the holy grail of science. Earlier, European physicists found the Higgs boson, a tiny particle that is so important that it is also called the God particle. This led a year later to the Nobel Prize in Physics. Dark matter, another fundamental mystery has not been found yet
Video: Scientists demonstrate gravitational waves
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