Almost exactly one hundred years after the publication of Einstein’s paper on General Relativity, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have published a paper in which they show a gravitational signal emitted by the merger of two black holes. The signal has been observed with 5-sigma accuracy and is the first direct observation of gravitational waves. Read more in the Bulletin.
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françaisThe discovery uncovered
In this week's Bulletin find out how the LIGO and Virgo collaborations announce the direct detection of gravitational waves