Discovery of Russian scientists called breakthrough of the year

Prestigious American magazine Science called discovery of gravitational waves entailed by merging neutron stars in NGC 4993 Galaxy by Russian physicists "Discovery of the year", TASS reports. The editors of scientific magazine has noted that fixing gamma ray burst after the stars’ merge became a real symphony for physicists and astronomers.

More than seventy observatories of the world studied aftermath of this collision. MASTER Telescopes produced in Russia were researching the burst of gravitation waves registered by LIGO detector. Our physicists, specialists of Russian Academy of Sciences and Lomonosov Moscow State University under guidance of Professor Vladimir Braginsky took part in development of the LIGO detector.

Unlike editors, magazine readers did not vote for this significant discovery, proving the relativity theory. They chose the medical experiment instead when doctors from Columbus Children’s Hospital used gene therapy to heal babies from atrophy of back muscles. The editors’ office has also complemented the discovery in the field of genetics.

Another discovery from Russia about collision of neutrino with atomic nucleus was made by a group of scientists under leadership of professor Yuri Efremenko.

Russkiy Mir