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LIGO announcement vaults astronomy out of its silent movie era into the talkies

  • Written by Chad Hanna, Assistant Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
imageSupercomputer simulation of a pair of neutron stars colliding.NASA/AEI/ZIB/M. Koppitz and L. Rezzolla, CC BY

When LIGO detected its first gravitational wave back in September 2015, I was pretty excited to say the least. As part of a decades-long endeavor, our whole team was ecstatic to observe gravitational waves – which are literally ripples...

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