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2017 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for detection of Gravitational waves
An artistic impression of two black holes merging. Image: SXS
3 October 2017
ANU has welcomed this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for the ground-breaking work to detect gravitational waves for the first time, 100 years after their existence was predicted by Albert Einstein. The Nobel Prize for the first confirmed observation of a gravitational wave, ripples in space-time caused by the cataclysmic collision of two large black holes 1.3 billion years ago, was a landmark discovery that opened up new fields in physics and astrophysics.
ANU gravitational wave scientistst supplied equipment and techniques that are used in the Advanced LIGO detectors.
