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What happens when LIGO texts you to say it's detected one of Einstein's predicted gravitational waves

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imageOh hey, I heard ripples in space and time, generated as two black holes merged. Call me backSXS, CC BY-ND

The best thing about a day in my life on the lookout for gravitational waves is that I never know when it will begin.

Like many of my colleagues working for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), the morning of Monday,...

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