Scientists Abuzz Over Upcoming Announcement on Gravitational Waves

The scientific community is abuzz about what details will be announced Monday on the latest discoveries about gravitational waves, Russian international television network RT.com reported Saturday.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) gave no indication what would be announced about the study that included partner scientists from 70 observatories. The event will be streamed live from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., at 10 a.m. EDT.

Lots of gossip at HEAD about the new, still "secret", LIGO event that everyone knows about.

— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) August 23, 2017

The idea of gravitational waves emerged from Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity https://t.co/tJVf8rM6Mh

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) October 6, 2017

In February 2016, LIGO confirmed the first direct observation of the waves, which had been perceived once before. They appear as extremely faint ripples in space and are the result of two black holes colliding 1.3 billion light years from Earth.

The discovery comes 100 years after Albert Einstein theorized about their existence in his General Theory of Relativity. The three U.S.-based scientists who first identified the gravitational waves won the Nobel Prize.

A subsequent detection of the waves took place this past June.

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