"Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it!"<br /><br />For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos.<br /><br />https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160211<br /><br />Courtesy Caltech/MIT/LIGO Laboratory
