Discovery of gravitational waves proves Einstein was right

Albert Einstein was proved right on Thursday when a group of scientists completed an experiment to prove his General Theory of Relativity.

Physicists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration in America have recorded the sound of two black holes colliding 1.3 billion light-years away, proving the existence of gravitational waves.

Einstein first posited his General Theory of Relativity 100 years ago to the Prussian Academy of Science, claiming that ripples in space-time should be detectable if two vast bodies came together.

And LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss said the results were "exactly what Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity would predict for two massive objects like black holes spiralling and merging together."