Gravitational waves

Kip Thorne, Nobel Prize Physics 2017 "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".

Link to the interview in wich Kip Thorne describes his own role and that of colleagues Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish, in the discovery of gravitational waves.

In his 1994’s book “Black Holes and Time Warps. Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy” he wrote:

“Gravitational-wave detectors will soon bring us observational maps of black holes, and the symphonic sounds of black holes colliding symphonies filled with rich, new information about how warped spacetime behaves when wildly vibrating. Supercomputer simulations will attempt to replicate the symphonies and tell us what they mean, and black holes thereby will become objects of detailed experimental scrutiny. What will that scrutiny teach us? There will be surprises.”

We are now in the surprises hera!