On the evening of Thursday 7 November 2024 we continued our celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding
Physics Breakthrough - Gravitational Waves
Wed, 02/24/2016 - 3:46am
For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at 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 to the cosmos. The gravitational waves were detected on Sept. 14, 2015 at 5:51 a.m. EDT (09:51 UTC) by both of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington.
Professor James Dent of our department of physics was featured in a recent KATC-TV video report concerning this breakthrough.
Learn more via this National Science Foundation link.