Researchers from various institutions including the Raman Research Institute (RRI) and the International Centre for Theoretical Science (ICTS) are sharing a special breakthrough prize. This award is shared by thirty-seven Indian researchers for Ligo.

“The analysis that they lead within the LIGO scientific Collaboration was one of the handful of tests used to establish the consistency of the observed signal with that coming from a binary black hole system predicted by Einstein’s theory,” ICTS said in a statement.

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the gravitational waves discovery. In which many Indian researchers participated. The LIGO award is the most prestigious thing that is announced by the Breakthrough Foundation on Wednesday. In the fields of science and mathematics, there are Breakthrough prizes.

The Breakthrough foundation said that the $3 million award which will be shared by LIGO founders Ronald WP Drever, Kip S Throne and Rainer Weiss with 1012 contributors said in a statement.

TIFR-Mumbai, IUCAA, Pune, IISER Kolkata, IISER Trivandrum, IIT Gandhinagar are the centres from India who contributed to LIGO. In the team of ICTS, there are Abhirup Ghosh, Archisman Ghosh, Arunava Mukherjee, Chandrakanth Mishra, Nathan Johnson-McDaniel and Bala Iyer are led by P Ajith.

LIGO maintained by International LIGO scientific Collaboration involving thousands of scientists and engineers. The special prize of $1 million will be distributed between three conceivers of LIGO, Kip Thorne, Ray Weiss and Ron Drever. Another $2 million will be given to the scientists who helped the gravitational waves discovery. On February 11th, the discovery of gravitational waves announced by LSC, which came out after the death of Albert Einstein who published the general theory that predicted them.