In 2017, the CNRS has awarded two Gold Medals, to the physicists Alain Brillet and Thibault Damour for their major contributions to the detection of gravitational waves, first announced on 11 February ...
On Feb. 11, 2016, an international team announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves. These tiny ripples in spacetime, produced by the final spinning 'dance' of two black holes on the ...