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Caltech's Kip Thorne and Barry Barrish, along with MIT's Rainer Weiss, Win 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

The collision of two black holes - an event detected for the first time by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO - is seen in this still from a computer simulation. LIGO detected gravitational waves, or ripples in space and time, generated as the black holes merged. The simulation shows what the merger would look like if we could somehow get a closer look. Time has been slowed by a factor of 100. The stars appear warped due to the strong gravity of the black holes. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on October 3, 2017, to three of the founders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO): Caltech's Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, and MIT's Rainer Weiss. On September 14, 2015, LIGO made the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of space and time, which had been predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years earlier. Photo by Caltech/UPI

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