Free Astronomy Magazine January-February 2016

26 Gravitational waves, one of the phenomena predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, could help researchers understand the mechanisms that generate some of the most energetic events of the universe, namely those that not even the theory of General Relativity of the same Einstein is able to investigate. Discovering those waves is, however, extreme- ly difficult from a technological point of view. LISA Pathfi gravitationa by Michele Ferrara ASTRONAUTICS JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2016