Abstract
Two years ago, on September 14, 2015 at 09.50.45 UTC, both interferometers of the Advanced LIGO in the United States detected the signal GW150914. For the first time in history, gravitational waves, the existence of which hundreds of years ago theoretically predicted Albert Einstein, were detected in a demonstrable way.
In this case, the source of the waves was the collision of two large black holes, which occurred more than a billion years ago in deep space. The report on this event was officially released in February 2016, and has inspired enthusiasm in the professional community and the unprecedented interest of the media.
Soon we also reported about it in Astropis. There was no doubt that the first direct observation of the gravitational waves was an event of historical significance that would deserve the Nobel Prize.
And this happened: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on October 3, 2017, that Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics this year "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."