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Emanuele Berti

Professor, Johns Hopkins University

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Today Physical Review Letters published a historical paper by the LIGO/Virgo Scientific Collaboration reporting the first detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes. The American Physical Society (APS) asked me to write a Physics Viewpoint article on this breakthrough event in gravitational physics.

Physics provides daily online-only news and commentary about a selection of papers from the APS journal collection. The website is aimed at the reader who wants to keep up with highlights of physics research with explanations that don’t rely on jargon and technical detail. Viewpoints are commentaries on papers written by prominent experts in their field for an audience with a college-level background in physics.