A 'magical' space-time ripple that wasn't believed, at first
Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 12:20
in Astronomy & Space
The wave that made history snuck up on them. David Shoemaker will never forget the date—September 14, 2015—when he woke up to a message alerting him that an underground detector had spotted a 1.3-billion-year-old ripple in the fabric of space-time.