Einstein proved equal – Telegraaf.nl

WASHINGTON –

A great mystery of the universe is resolved. The mysterious gravitational waves exist, such as Albert Einstein had predicted a hundred years ago. Which was published Thursday

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Two detectors in the United States picked up on september 14, the signal from a gravitational wave. After calculating showed that it was not an error or noise.

The wave comes from two black holes, which have come together 1.3 billion years ago. ,, Each black hole was about 150 kilometers in diameter, but weighed thirty times as much as our sun. Who are with the half of the speed of light impinged ”, David Reitze explained of the detectors from.

From further measurements it was found that one black hole 36 times as much weighed as our sun and the other 29 times. Then they went together created a black hole of 62 “solar masses” less than they weighed together. That’s because three solar masses and energy were thrown. ,, A huge amount, ” the researchers said. When the merger was fifty times more energy released than all the stars in the universe to produce together, they have calculated.

Einstein suggested that the universe consists of space and time and that these constitute a whole. He called spacetime. Which can vibrate. There are violent events needed. Then go shockwaves through the universe, like ripples from a stone in a pond.

With such a ripple stretches the space matter whether it shrinks slightly. That’s hardly measurable. As a result, it was possible only after one hundred years, with the most advanced laser equipment. When the gravity wave went along, the laser beams were disturbed a little bit.

Scientists can look at the universe with gravitational waves in a whole new way. They see things that remained hidden until now, such as objects that emit no light. ,, Until now we were deaf, but now we can hear, ” says Reitze. ,, We open a window to the universe. ”

Physicists from Amsterdam and astronomers from Nijmegen were closely involved in pioneering research.

It is not clear if the discoverers this year can get a Nobel Prize. The nominations closed on February 1st. Nobel Prize Winners will be announced in October

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