Researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), after announcing success in detecting gravitational waves in the fabric of time and space for the first time, are now trying to prove the quantum theory, a theory of matter and energy based on the concept quantum mechanics.

According to the great physicist Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, accelerating objects produce gravitational waves in space-time. The theory was recently proven correct on detecting the disturbance in time and space. Now, the researchers are looking forward to the quantum theory to come true so that both theories can be put together to make further understand.

In the belief of many physicists, gravitational waves are made up of individual quantum particles of gravity called gravitons and that these particles join to form gravitational waves. The presence of the quantum gravity is expected to be directly around the center of black holes. The events of such activity were recorded by LIGO from outside the horizons of a pair of black holes as they collided.

Some theories even stated that gravitons can cause gravitational waves to become more powerful and less regular. So far, not even single graviton was detected by the LIGO. However, there are hopes that a future gravitational wave detector could provide any existence of quantum gravity surrounding the black holes.

"Certain scenarios with strong quantum modifications in a region extending well outside the horizon are expected to modify classical evolution, and distort the near-peak gravitational wave signal, suggesting a search for anomalies such as decreased regularity of the signal and increased power," said Steven Giddings of the University of California, Santa Barbara.