{"title":"Black Holes","authors":"J. Allday","doi":"10.1201/9781315165141-11","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, a huge scientific collaboration called LIGO discovered gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are huge ripples in spacetime that occur as a result of astrophysical events, like collisions between massive things in outer space. In 2015, the LIGO scientists found a signal that came from two black holes merging. This was huge scientific news, and resulted in the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish.","PeriodicalId":179016,"journal":{"name":"Space-time","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Space-time","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315165141-11","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 2015, a huge scientific collaboration called LIGO discovered gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are huge ripples in spacetime that occur as a result of astrophysical events, like collisions between massive things in outer space. In 2015, the LIGO scientists found a signal that came from two black holes merging. This was huge scientific news, and resulted in the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish.