Science, Maths & Technology
What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?
...working at the LIGO experiment in the US have for the first time detected elusive ripples in the fabric of space and time known as gravitational waves. There is no doubt that the finding is one of the most groundbreaking physics discoveries of the past 100 years. But what are they? [Computer simulation of two merging black holes producing gravitational waves] Computer...