
Rai Weiss, co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, is a principal architect of the greatest recording device in human history, LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), which captured the first recorded sounds from space. These first recorded sounds were the ringing of spacetime from the collision of two black holes over a billion years ago.
This project is supported by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated in engaging everyone with the process of science.
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