India OK’s New Observatory; Japan’s X-Ray Telescope; Long-Lasting Eclipse Detected
LIGO Scientific Collaboration to Build New Observatory in India Just days (2/11/16) after announcing the first detection of Einstein’s theorized gravitational waves, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration has been granted approval in principle by India to build an Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory there. LIGO currently operates two observatories in the United States; one in Hanford, […]
100 Years Later Einstein is Proven Right!
Some 1.3 billion years ago a pair of black holes that had been orbiting each other finally smashed into each other with such force that it produced gravitational waves that rang through the universe like a giant bell. Today at a Washington DC news conference, some 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted their existence in […]