Ripples found in Spacetime: Breakthrough for Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

• comments
• 
• 

More than 100 years ago, Physicist Albert Einstein proposed the Theory of General Relativity. It was only in 2016 that physicist could find a breakthrough studying his theory. Ripples in Spacetime was the result of the Theory of General Relativity.

In 2016, Physicists were able to discover the gravitation waves which were produced by two black holes colliding into one another which led to ripples in the spacetime. Two huge science experiments situated in Washington and Louisiana knew as Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory or LIGO detected the gravitational waves. After 100 years, Physicists were finally able to get a breakthrough which almost created a new branch of science. The telescopes used for researchers in the space employs electromagnetic radiation which is emitted to find objects in the outer space. However, there are objects which don't emit electromagnetic radiation like the smoking gun of Big Bang or colliding black holes but now with the help of LIGO, invisible objects can be seen.

As per the complete research available in Vox, Gabriela Gonzales who is the member of scientific leaders of the LIGO project states that the LIGO has been well acclaimed by researchers all over the globe. Finally, there is a breakthrough in Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. In can be explained as an example of sound waves which while propagating disturbs the air and creates abbreviations that lead to Noise and similarly, was gravitational waves propagate, they disturb the fabric of spacetime that leads to matter displacement.

According to Science Mag, LIGO has two arms of 4 KM each with mirrors enclosed in a giant vacuum chamber. Whenever light bounces between mirrors, the length of both arms can be measured within 1/10,000 the width of a proton that helps Physicists determine the gravitational waves. After the discovery of gravitational waves, physicists are anticipated more events that will follow. Other instruments that will soon join the LIGO are VIRGO Detector in Italy, Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector in Japan, and a detector in India which are expected to set up by 2020s.

What might follow is unimaginable. The detectors might detect wild ideas about the black holes which are the subjects of interest for many physicists. They believe that black holes can engulf whatever might fall in.