GRAVITATIONAL WAVES HIT EARTH
A mysterious cosmic event might have ever so slightly stretched and squeezed our planet. On 14 January astronomers detected a split-second burst of gravitational waves, distortions in space-time – but researchers don’t know where this burst came from. The signal, picked up by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometer, lasted only 14 milliseconds, and astronomers
