The Team That Found Gravitational Waves (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

First word came last week from the National Science Foundation, telling the world to stand by for a major scientific announcement. Not many get a drum roll like that. And then it came: word of the first direct evidence of gravitational waves in the universe. All around us. Ripples in space and time posited by Albert Einstein a century ago. Signals – chirps – of a beat to the cosmos. What does it mean? This hour On Point, we go to the team that opened up the universe of gravitational waves. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/15/gravitational-waves-einstein-black-holes