SYDNEY, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- An international team of researchers including dozens of Australian scientists have marked the latest discovery over gravitational waves, less than a month after the first observations of the ripples in time and space won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The scientists traced the destruction of two colliding neutron stars via the gravitational waves, whose exact origins or the astronomical events related to their creation were previously unknown, according to a media release from Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery on Tuesday.
"This was the first time that any cosmic event was observed through both light it emitted and the gravitational ripples it caused in the fabric of space-time," center director Professor Matthew Bailes was quoted as saying. "The subsequent avalanche of science was virtually unparalleled in modern astrophysics".
The University of Sydney's Associate Professor Tara Murphy led a group that first confirmed the radio emissions from the stars' collision located 130 million light years from Earth, the centre said.
Earlier in October, U.S physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the detection of gravitational waves, the ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein one century ago.
