The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was just awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C Barish, and Kip S Thorne for their decades-long work that resulted in the detection of the long-sought echoes from distant collisions between two black holes.
Weiss, Barish, and Thorne's work — along with the effort of hundreds of other scientists — has effectively ushered in a new era of physics in the space sciences.
The three researchers all contributed key findings that led to discoveries made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), two twin observatories in Louisiana and Washington.
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