Gravitational Waves Discovered!

Einstein predicted their existence 101 years ago, and now it s official: we ve detected gravitational waves directly for the first time ever! Annotations: The Theory of Everything, A Little Bit Closer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8GyH... The Amazing Cosmic Discovery That Almost Was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvtRX... ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Fatima Iqbal, Linnea Boyev, Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Justin Lentz, Chris Peters, and Philippe von Bergen. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: NSF/LIGO press conference in Washington, DC https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/when-two-black-holes-collide/462279/ Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_portrait.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spacetime_curvature.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quadrupol_Wave.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_leg_of_LIGO_interferometer_on_Hanford_Reservation.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LIGO_control.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ligo.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LIGO_measurement_of_gravitational_waves.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Hole_Merger.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_the_pulsar_PSR_J0348%2B0432_and_its_white_dwarf_companion.jpg