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Nobel prize- 2017, in physics has been awarded to three US scientists for the detection of gravitational waves.
(£831,000) prize will be distributed between Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish .
General Theory of Relativity, which was predicted by Albert Einstein is a great topic of research since it discover, Ripples are the general consequence of this theory.
All the three winners were working in the Ligo-Virgo observatories.
Prof Weiss gets half of the prize money, while Barish and Thorne will share the other half.
The stretching and squeezing of space-time during acceleration of massive objects and gravitational waves are responsible for it.
Distortion of space ,from the merger of two black holes was initially picked up by the US Ligo laboratory in 2015 .
Gravitational waves are a prediction of the Theory of General Relativity
It took decades to develop the technology to directly detect them
They are ripples in the fabric of space-time generated by violent events
Accelerating masses will produce waves that propagate at the speed of light
Detectable sources ought to include merging black holes and neutron stars
Ligo/Virgo fire lasers into long, L-shaped tunnels; the waves disturb the light
from BBC
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