2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three US scientists
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Date: 2017-10-03

Einstein's waves win Nobel Prize
Rainer Weiss wins Nobel Prize in physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences every year awards the Nobel Prizes in Physics. This year the announcement will be on Tuesday 3 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
The 2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three US scientists for the detection of gravitational waves.
Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish will share the nine million kronor (£831,000) prize.
The ripples were predicted by Albert Einstein and are a fundamental consequence of his General Theory of Relativity.
The winners are members of the Ligo-Virgo observatories, which were responsible for the breakthrough.
The winners join a prestigious list of 204 other Physics laureates recognised since 1901.
Prof Weiss gets half of the prize money, while Barish and Thorne will share the other half.
Gravitational waves describe the stretching and squeezing of space-time that occurs when massive objects accelerate.
The warping of space resulting from the merger of two black holes was initially picked up by the US Ligo laboratory in 2015 - the culmination of a decades-long quest.
Three more examples have been detected since then.

3 Scientists Win Nobel in Physics for Detecting Gravitational Waves
About 1.3 billion years ago, two black holes slammed into each other, sending ripples in space-time through the cosmos. Three scientists who were integral in detecting these so-called gravitational waves for the first time were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics this morning (Oct. 3).
Rainer Weiss of MIT, Kip S. Thorne of Caltech and Barry C. Barish, also at Caltech, "have ensured that more than four decades of effort led to gravitational waves finally being observed," according to NobelPrize.org.  
On Sept. 14, 2015, the waves, which travel at the speed of light and result from some of the most violent collisions in space, showed up as weak wobbles in the light patterns at the twin LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detectors in the United States.