
Pulsars and Neutrinos
The history that LIGO forgot
Gilding the lily makes everybody look bad. When the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detected ripples in the fabric of space-time from a pair of merging black holes, it was a technological and scientific accomplishment without peer! But LIGO did not “discover” gravity waves.
This article originally appeared in my Astronomy Magazine column, For Your Consideration.