Earlier today, researchers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that they had detected gravitational waves - ripples in space-time - originally predicted by Albert Einstein and that had remained elusive for almost a century. The Kavli Foundation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a round-table discussion with three LIGO scientists about the discovery.
The discussion included Rainer Weiss, an emeritus professor of physics at MIT; Matthew Evans, an assistant professor of physics at MIT; and Nergis Mavalvala, an astrophysics professor at MIT. All three are members of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI).
The three discussed how the new found ability to study gravitational waves will not only revolutionize our understanding of events in the universe, but will bring Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to its limits, according to a news release.
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