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Einstein@@Home: press conference after gravity waves find?

Spear · 2016-02-10 08:13:58

After a bunch of rumours that the LIGO system and Einstein@Home had found evidence of gravity waves, they've announced a press conference for tomorrow evening: http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php

10-02-2016 09:13AM

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After a bunch of rumours that the LIGO system and Einstein@Home had found evidence of gravity waves, they've announced a press conference for tomorrow evening:

http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php

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They've announced the discovery of a gravity wave produced by an event around 1.3 billion years ago:

http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/02/upgraded-ligo-detectors-spot-gravitational-waves/

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