UKAstroNut's video: The First Detection of Gravitational Waves

After a century of searching, we have finally directly detected the first gravitational wave. What are Gravitational Waves, what caused these first detections and why are they important. Twitter: https://twitter.com/UKAstroNut Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKAstroNut Website: http://www.ukastronut.co.uk Blog: http://ukastronutblog.blogspot.co.uk/ Credits: By NASA - Taken from http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_060203.html credit is listed to NASA., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2232477 Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10372273 An artistic view of the proposed Einstein Telescope observatory. Credit: ASPERA By ESA/Hubble, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35306789 By Rmhermen - Transferred from en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=468996 By NASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans - http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/115334main_image_feature_329_ys_full.jpgAlt: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001138.html (direct link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43894484 By Jameslwoodward - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8510442 By Ferdinand Schmutzer - http://www.bhm.ch/de/news_04a.cfm?bid=4&jahr=2006 [dead link], archived copy (image), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34239518 LIGO Map - http://labcit.ligo.caltech.edu/~beckett/LIGO_Images/Schematic/LIGO_Map1.jpg By User:Alain r - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1150148 By ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray) - http://www.eso.org/gallery/v/ESOPIA/Galaxies/phot-03a-09-fullres.tif.html, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5821706