Ten years ago today, physicists reported the first direct detection of gravitational waves, produced by colliding black holes 1.3 billion light years away.
That was when we, as a species, developed space-time eyes. My Invisible Universe column:
https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/the-day-we-evolved-space-time-eyes #space #science #nature #technology
Here's the paper & the press release documenting the day in 2016 when we first developed the skills to see (or hear, if that's your preferred metaphor) two black holes merging into one.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102?fbclid=IwY2xjawP5rUdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFvV0daT25DMDhKMFo4cXBuc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgX6LaKMGqUB1DGiP0tE9Ugfrl454TcpwEdCN880joeZ_xDHfOY_G8QZQMsd_aem_77ClqYe_ZGU-3BgDt0H8qw #history #science #nature
