From Star Trek to Family Guy, storylines based on ripples in the spacetime continuum theorized by Albert Einstein abound. Well, three U.S. scientists just won the Nobel Prize for Physics proving him right.
The three octogenarians headed a massive crowdsource effort that simultaneously proved Einstein right—and wrong. In his General Theory of Relativity, he posited way back in 1915 that space and time are not constants, and that in the presence of energy and mass, like that of a black hole, they become malleable.
Image: The Virgo Detector (Photo: The Virgo collaboration/CCO 1.0)
