{"id":328930,"date":"2017-10-04T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-us-astrophysicists-win-nobel-prize-in-physics\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T08:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:47:45","slug":"three-us-astrophysicists-win-nobel-prize-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-us-astrophysicists-win-nobel-prize-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Three US astrophysicists win Nobel Prize in physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US astrophysicists Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for the discovery of gravitational waves, offering a sneak peek at the universe&#8217;s very beginnings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago as part of his theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are &#8220;ripples&#8221; in space-time &#8212; the theoretical fabric of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>They are the aftermath of violent galactic events such as colliding black holes or imploding massive stars, and can reveal events that took place billions of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The first detection of gravitational waves happened in September 2015 at the US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), where the three Nobel laureates worked.<\/p>\n<p>Announced in February 2016 to great excitement in the scientific community, the discovery was hailed as the historic culmination of decades of research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their discovery shook the world,&#8221; said Goran Hansson, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/04\/537403\/US-Stockholm-Nobel-Prize-space-physics-research\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US astrophysicists Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for the discovery of gravitational waves, offering a sneak peek at the universe&#8217;s very beginnings. Predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago as part of his theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are &#8220;ripples&#8221; in space-time &#8212; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}