Gravitational Waves: What LIGO Has Discovered In 2015, the scientific world was shaken by a groundbreaking discovery: the first direct detection of gravitational waves. This momentous event, achieved by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), confirmed a prediction made by Albert Einstein a century earlier in his theory of general relativity. What are Gravitational Waves? … Continue reading Gravitational Waves: What LIGO Has Discovered More