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Stephen Hawking congratulates gravitational waves discovery... and says we...

'It is thrilling to see predictions I made over 40 years ago... being observed within my lifetime'

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Gravitational waves: A brief history of gravity and LIGO

Scientists announce they have succeeded in detecting gravitational waves from the violent merging of two black holes in deep space

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What it's like to be part of the biggest scientific discovery of the century

Like many of my colleagues at LIGO, the morning of Monday, September 14, 2015 caught me completely off-guard

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How to understand Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity

General relativity is possibly one of the most comprehensive theories ever formulated

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The discovery of gravitational waves opens up a new window on the cosmos

This is genuinely a big deal – in my view on the level of the discovery of the Higgs particle

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Gravitational waves: Science 'discovery of century' explained perfectly in...

One internet user has compared the discovery to throwing a pebble in a pond

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The findings may be theoretical, but this is why you should care about the...

Some people will question why they should care about scientific advances. Sure, it's amazing that Einstein really was as much of a genius as we thought, but that won't change the way most people live...

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Gravitational waves: Cartoon gives simple explanation of newly-discovered...

Confused about gravitational waves? This video can help you understand

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Gravitational waves: Scientist spoils biggest scientific announcement of the...

Erin Ryan, a researcher at Nasa, posted a photo of the cake bearing the message about 'ripples in the fabric of spacetime' about 15 minutes before anyone was supposed to know

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