Research report 2017 - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
The first observation of gravitational waves from merging neutron stars
Authors
Dietrich, Tim
Departments
Astrophysikalische und Kosmologische Relativitätstheorie
Summary
Over 100 years after the formulation of the theory of general relativity by Albert Einstein and more than 30 years after the first discovery of a binary neutron star system, the gravitational wave signal of colliding neutron stars has been detected for the first time.