Folds on the fabric of space-time. Einstein, gravitational waves and the future of astronomy

Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein, but they managed to find them recently. In the remote region of the Universe, two black holes were collapsed and merged. Having made a path exceeding 1 billion of light years, in September 2015 they reached land. Two giant Ligo detectors registered the smallest tremor. The moment of the first registration of gravitational waves is today recognized as a scientific breakthrough of the century, which discovered a scientist a new understanding of the processes underlying the formation of the Universe. The book of GOVERT SHILLING is an exciting narrative about how scientists around the world tried to record this elusive ripples of the cosmos: decades of research, the vicissitudes of scientists and projects, failures and victories. The author describes at first glance fantastic technologies that allow you to detect gravitational waves caused by a clash of black holes far beyond the borders of our galaxy. In an accessible language, explaining such concepts as “general theory of relativity”, “neutron stars”, “supernova explosions”, “black holes”, “dark energy”, “big explosion” and many others, Shilling gradually leads the reader to understand the phenomena that put it down The beginning of the era of gravitational-wave astronomy, and talks about the near future of science, which is only preparing to discover many secrets of the universe