Australian discovery of gravitational waves opens ‘whole new window to the universe’

Australian researchers made a groundbreaking discovery in detecting gravitational waves on Earth by receiving the prestigious Prime Minister’s Science Award for their contributions. One of the recipients of the award, Professor Susan Scott, said her team of four scientists paved the way for the Australian effort towards that first discovery in a 25-year journey. “The consequences of this for humanity is that we have unlocked this new part of the universe that we couldn’t access before because we are seeing a different kind of signal than we have ever used before … we can see new things before we couldn’t. “he said. “He opened this whole new window into the universe with this gravitational wave astronomy.” Physicist Albert Einstein predicted the existence of waves in 1915, now detected over a century later.