... LIGO makes waves, Australia follows up . ... Last month, physicists at LIGO made waves with the announcement that elusive gravitational waves - ripples in space time caused by a violent cosmic event taking place in the distant Universe - had finally been observed 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted their existence. The Australian radio telescopes involved in the EM follow-up observations were ASKAP and the MWA, located at CSIRO's MRO in Western Australia. ... today * ATNF | ... ASKAP | ...