引力波终被探测—爱因斯坦百年预言证实！.PDFVIP

Version 30 Jan 2016, LIGO Document LIGO-L1600011-v5 Common Language In All Press Releases GRAVITATIONAL WAVES DETECTED 100 YEARS AFTER EINSTEIN’S PREDICTION LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes 引力波终被探测—爱因斯坦百年预言证实！ LIGO 探测到双黑洞碰撞产生的引力波，打开了一扇观察宇宙的新窗口 For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos. 有史以来，科学家第一次观测到了时空纤维中的涟漪——引力波，这一来自遥远宇 宙的灾变性事件所产生的信号。这一探测证实了阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦在 1915 年的 广义相对论的一个重要预言，并打开了一扇前所未有的探索宇宙的新窗口 Gravitational waves carry information about their dramatic origins and about the nature of gravity that cannot otherwise be obtained. Physicists have concluded that the detected gravitational waves were produced during the final fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes to produce a single, more massive spinning black hole. This collision of two black holes had been predicted but never observed. 起源于剧烈物理活动的引力波，携带着关于其源头和关于引力的独一无二的信息。 物理学家们确信他们探测到了来自两个黑洞最后并合瞬间的引力波，这两个黑洞最 终形成了一个更重的快速旋转的黑洞。这一现象长久以来就被理论预言，然而在此 之前却一直没被 观测到 。 The gravitational waves were detected on September 14, 2015 at 5:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (9:51 a.m. UTC) by both of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, USA. The LIGO Observatories are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and were conceived, built, and are operated by Caltech and MIT. The discovery, accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review Letters, was made by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (which includes the