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Gravitational Wave Scientists Win 2017 Nobel Physics Prize

Web Desk (October 03, 2017): US astrophysicists Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss won the Nobel Physics Prize on Thursday for their discovery of gravitational waves, the Nobel jury said.

Predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago as part of his theory of general relativity but only first detected in 2015, gravitational waves are ´ripples´ in the fabric of space-time caused by violent processes in the Universe, such as colliding black holes or the collapse of stellar cores.

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“Their discovery shook the world,” said Goran K Hansson, the head of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.

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