A day will come when the world would probably come to know about what some astrophysicists have been nervously foreseeing for months. There are speculations that the existence of gravitational wave has been confirmed by a pair of extremely sensitive laser detectors. The waves were first predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein in the general theory of relativity.

And, possibly more significantly, rumors based partially on an e-mail a Canadian physicist posted on Twitter to his colleagues and students, claiming that researchers behind the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment are going to announce on Thursday that they’ve found these waves emitting from two black holes on a collision course. LIGO has been seeking gravity ripples caused by violent explosions in remote space.

While speaking to Science magazine, Clifford Burgess, author of the e-mail and theoretical physicist at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, said, “This is just from talking to people who said they've seen the paper, but I've not seen the paper itself. I've been around a long time, so I've seen rumors come and go. This one seems more credible”. Burgess signed off the e-mail to his colleagues writing a ‘Woohoo! (I hope)’.

LIGO researchers said that detection of these undulations traveling across space at the speed of light is certainly going to open a new window on the universe.

They are generated by unobservable cataclysmic events, like collision of black holes or explosion of stars that are too far away to detect using existing technologies that seek sparks of light. They will assist astrophysicists in learning more regarding these phenomena.

While speaking to The Christian Science Monitor, Marc Kamionkowski, a theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said that they are quite firm that universe is packed with black holes and neutron stars, but as they don’t shine, they can’t be seen easily.