The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was awarded for the first direct detection of _____ waves.
- electromagnetic
- gravitational
- sound
- radio
Answer: gravitational
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for the first direct detection of gravitational waves, confirming a major prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity.