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The big piece of LIGO was the incredible effort that went into data analysis and verification. The second these things were detected a monumental effort went in
by pducks32 9y ago
The big piece of LIGO was the incredible effort that went into data analysis and verification. The second these things were detected a monumental effort went into confirming it meaning when it happened again the methods were already in place. This heavily contributed to how quickly these results were accepted.