2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
A little over two years after the first direct detection of gravitational waves at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), the Nobel Prize committee has awarded the 2017 physics prize to three leaders of the decades-long project “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.” Read more in this update from APS News.
Image credit: (left) Bryce Vickmark, (center) Caltech, (right) Jon Rou.
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