On February 11, 2016 the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the United States announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves. This discovery attracted public attention. In this paper, we try to answer the following questions: What are gravitational waves? How are gravitational waves produced? Why and how do scientists detect gravitational waves? Moreover, we introduce the current status and prospects of gravitational wave detections.
GUO Zongkuan
,
CAI Ronggen
,
ZHANG Yuanzhong
. Gravitational wave detections: A new age of gravitational wave astronomy[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2016
, 34(3)
: 30
-33
.
DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2016.03.002
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