The Nobel goes to gravitational waves.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize to three American physicists, Rainer Weiss from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Kip Thorne and Barry Barish from the California Institute of Technology, for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
The waves, which were predicted by Einstein in his theory of relativity, were detected for the first time in 2015 by the American Ligo interferometer. The Trento-Padova research group – with the Physics Department representing the University of Trento – was instrumental in detecting the signal.
For more information read the press release (in italian).