Gravitational-Wave Hunters Surf to Top Science Magazine Award
One of the world's top scientific magazines has awarded its highest yearly honor to an experiment searching for ripples in the fabric of the universe. Science magazine bestowed its 2016 Breakthrough of the Year Award upon the collaboration of scientists who built and operate the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), the journal announced today (Dec. 22). Gravitational waves were first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915, but it took a century to procure the first-ever direct detection of this cosmic phenomena.
