Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Black Hole Blues is a history of the search for gravitational waves ...
Albert Einstein's 100-year-old theory about gravitational waves has been proved correct. And now the breakthrough has been recognised with the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics. Scientists working with the ...
Collision course Artist’s impression of gravitational waves from two black holes. (Courtesy: iStock/Auris) By adapting mathematical techniques used in particle physics, researchers in Germany have ...