You may have heard about the announcement this morning that the LIGO project has finally confirmed the detection of a gravitational wave, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein’s General Relativity theory, but never before actually seen.  In fact, this observation is considered to be the last component in verifying the GR theory. More importantly, the fact that we can now detect gravitational waves may begin a whole new era of astronomy because it allows us to “see” things that we never could before.  In the case of this first observation, scientists were able to determine (with a very good degree of […]