LIGO Confirms RIT's Breakthrough Prediction of Gravitational Waves (IMAGE)

Rochester Institute of Technology

LIGO Confirms RIT's Breakthrough Prediction of Gravitational Waves

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RIT scientists produced one of the first computer simulations of gravitational waves from colliding black holes. The signals they predicted were confirmed by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration's first observation of gravitational waves.

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Campanelli et al.

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