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Gravitational waves offer astronomical revelations

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2016

LIGO co-founder Kip Thorne speaks to the media as a depiction of gravitational waves from two converging black holes is displayed behind him during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The news conference was held to announce the discovery of gravitational waves, which Einstein had theorized a century earlier.