Details on the detection of the gravitational waves will be publicized on Thursday. Scientists will be organizing a press conference to discuss their observations while looking out for gravitational waves, whose existence for the first time was made by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity 100 years ago.

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) who have been working on the detection of the waves for so many years will be taking part in the conference.

The press conference will be held on Thursday at 10.30 am at the National Press Club in the US capital Washington. It is being rumored that the LIGO team may have detected gravitational waves. These waves are produced by disturbances in the fabric of space and time when a massive object moves like a black hole or neutron star.

It is being rumored that the team may have observed the collision of two black holes and their fusion leading to the detection of gravitational waves. Clifford Burgess, a physicist at McMaster University in Canada, has found the rumors credible.

A century ago, Einstein has predicted gravitational waves in his general theory of relativity. Gravitational waves do not interact with matter and they travel through the universe completely unimpeded. The most cataclysmic processes in the Universe cause the strangest waves.

Scientists are quite eager to know about gravitational waves as finding them would open new avenues in astronomy. Primordial gravitational waves are the hardest to detect. They would strengthen another leading theory of cosmology.

Gravitational waves are quite difficult to detect because of their small size. Till date, gravitational waves have been detected indirectly. Finding them will offer astronomers a new way to look at the most mysterious workings of the universe.