GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: Dawn of a new astronomy

Miller, Coleman M.

¹M. Coleman Miller is in the Department of Astronomy and Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-2421, USA.

The author declares competing interests. M.C.M. was the chair of the LIGO Program Advisory Committee during 2010-14, and a member of the same committee for three years before that. He has never been a member of the LIGO or Virgo scientific collaborations.

Nature 531(7592):p 40-42, March 3, 2016. | DOI: 10.1038/nature17306

The discovery of gravitational waves from a merging black-hole system opens a window on the Universe that promises to test gravity at its strongest, and to reveal many surprises about black holes and other astrophysical systems.