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LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes — Caltech

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Key
ligo2016pressrelease
Authors
LIGO Laboratory
Issued
2016-2-11
Type
webpage
Publisher
Caltech
Raw CSL JSON
{
  "URL": "https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/press-release-gw150914",
  "type": "webpage",
  "title": "LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes",
  "author": [
    {
      "literal": "LIGO Laboratory"
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2016,
        2,
        11
      ]
    ]
  },
  "publisher": "Caltech"
}

Claims

  1. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
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