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The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their discoveries in gravitational waves.
Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday the winners are Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.
The three were key to the first observation of gravitational waves in September 2015.
When the discovery was announced several months later, it was a sensation not only among scientists but the general public.
He said researchers hope to one day improve the sensitivity of their detectors to look "deeper and deeper" into the universe.
Gravitational waves are extremely faint ripples in the fabric of space and time, generated by some of the most violent events in the universe.
The waves detected by the laureates came from the collision of two black holes some 1.3 billion light-years away. A light-year is about 5.88 trillion miles.
Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday the winners are Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.
The three were key to the first observation of gravitational waves in September 2015.
When the discovery was announced several months later, it was a sensation not only among scientists but the general public.
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He said researchers hope to one day improve the sensitivity of their detectors to look "deeper and deeper" into the universe.
Gravitational waves are extremely faint ripples in the fabric of space and time, generated by some of the most violent events in the universe.
The waves detected by the laureates came from the collision of two black holes some 1.3 billion light-years away. A light-year is about 5.88 trillion miles.
