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The collision of two black holes holes — detected for the first time ever by LIGO in 2015 — is depicted in this still from a computer simulation.
Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project
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September 2015: Physicists detect gravitational waves for the first time
Detection of waves emitted by colliding binary black holes opened a new era in astrophysics and proved that Einstein was right.
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