“This visualization shows what Einstein envisioned. Researchers crunched Einstein’s theory of general relativity on the Columbia supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center to create a three-dimensional simulation of merging black holes. This was the largest astrophysical calculation ever performed on a NASA supercomputer. The simulation provides the foundation to explore the universe in an entirely new way, through the detection of gravitational waves.”
(Dated 14 January 2008)
Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is almost exactly a century old. And now comes important observational support for one of its last and oddest predictions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html?_r=1
This is really, really big news, as science news goes.
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