Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, by Janna Levin

Book of the week: Marcus Chown on a portrait of those who drove the Ligo project and helped to find gravitational waves

Published on
April 14, 2016
Last updated
May 30, 2016
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (Ligo), Livingston, Louisiana
Source: Alamy
Big science: Ligo is in essence a couple of giant 4km rulers made of laser light, one is in Louisiana (above), the other is in Washington State

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Print headline: Hark! A celestial symphony

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