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According to his calculations, accelerated objects were capable of producing distortions in space-time that spread throughout the universe. If detected, "cosmic whispers" would allow us to "hear" phenomena as intense as they are intriguing. The explosion of supernovae, the collision of two black holes or even the Big Bang would be some of the events that we could know better thanks to gravitational waves.
But was Einstein's prediction correct? Last February, scientists from the Advanced LIGO project , including a Spanish team from the University of the Balearic Islands , managed to detect gravitational waves for the first time. These echoes came from the Industry Email List collision of two black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago. Einstein's prediction came true with what is possibly the scientific discovery of the year.
But the good news does not stop there. At the beginning of December 2015, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the LISA Pathfinder mission , with which it intended to test the technology to detect gravitational waves from space. The probe, located 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, is laying the foundations for a future space observatory.
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