In a Lig-of their own

Validating a theory over 100 years old, scientists for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration have discovered proof for gravitational waves. Gravitational waves, first theorized by Albert Einstein in 1915, like ripples caused by stones tossed into a lake, are the universal equivalent, instead caused by large-scale matter and energy distortions. Pulling the support of more than a thousand scientists around the world, this discovery was a major breakthrough for the entire scientific community, with Columbia University professor and LIGO scientist Szabolcs Marka saying, “Everything else in astronomy is like the eye. Finally astronomy grew ears.”