Updated 4:15pm Feb 11: Congratulations to the LIGO collaboration for successfully detecting gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. Follow @FQXi on Twitter for live updates.
I'm opening this thread as a place to watch and discuss Thursday's big announcement from the LIGO collaboration about the hunt for gravitational waves from the merger of black holes. The press conference takes place at 3:30pm GMT, 4:30pm CET, 10:30am ET, 7:30am PT. You can watch the live stream here:
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Sabine Hossenfelder has some nice background on gravitational waves over at Backreaction. At New Scientist, there's a nice diagram using NASA'S WMAP image of the cosmic microwave background to attempt to located where a possible gravitational wave signal may have been found, accompanying an article by Joshua Sokol.
There are a host of other good articles out there--so feel free to link to any good ones that you find in the comments below.
See you tomorrow!