Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 honours gravitational waves discovery

Researchers Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne recognised for their work on the international Ligo project

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October 3, 2017

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The gravitational waves were caused by a collision between black holes more than a billion years ago

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