Universe is Humming 15 years of observations 190 scientists from India and the world heard gravitational waves

After years of hard work, a team of astronomers from all over the world has achieved great success. For the first time, he has heard gravitational waves resonating in the universe. The special thing is that the existence of gravitational waves had already been predicted by the great scientist Albert Einstein. Scientists from 7 Indian institutions were also involved in this discovery. Six radio telescopes from around the world were used to detect low-pitch gravitational waves. These included Pune-based Metrowave Radio Telescope (UGMRT).

Information related to the discovery will be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters this month. published Has happened. A team of about 190 scientists from all over the world were working on this discovery for the last 15 years. The mission of the Pune-based Metrowave Radio Telescope (UGMRT) was to collect signals from the universe and increase their accuracy, so that gravitational waves could be confirmed.

According to a TOI report, gravitational waves are believed to have originated from the merger of supermassive black holes in our early universe. This discovery will help scientists to unravel the mysteries related to the merger of black holes.

According to the report, this search started in the year 2002. In the year 2016, Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) was also added to it. Its purpose is also to detect low frequency nanohertz gravitational waves. Researchers from NCRA (Pune), TIFR (Mumbai), IIT (Roorkee), IISER (Bhopal), IIT (Hyderabad), IMSc (Chennai) and RRI (Bengaluru) as well as Japan’s Kumamoto University were involved in its experiments.

Gravitational waves were first proposed by Albert Einstein in 1916. Only now can their low pitch be heard. Gravitational waves are created when black holes merge. After this discovery, scientists will be able to understand black holes more deeply.