Breakthrough: Scientists detect Einstein-predicted ripples

Breakthrough: Scientists detect Einstein-predicted ripples

"It's one thing to know soundwaves exist, but it's another to
actually hear Beethoven's Fifth Symphony," said Marc Kamionkowsi, a
physicist at Johns Hopkins University who wasn't part of the discovery
team. "In this case we're actually getting to hear black holes merging."

Gravitational waves are the "soundtrack of the universe," said team member Chad Hanna of Pennsylvania State University.