My jaw just dropped reading this: > According to two members of the collaboration, the Nobel-prize winning figure of LIGO’s seminal detection was “not found us

My jaw just dropped reading this: > According to two members of the collaboration, the Nobel-prize winning figure of LIGO’s seminal detection was “not found using analysis algorithms” but partly done “by eye” and “hand-tuned for pedagogical purposes.” To this date, the journal that published the paper has refused to comment. In the provided link: > Brown, part of the LIGO collaboration at the time, explains this as an attempt to provide a visual aid. “It was hand-tuned for pedagogical purposes.” He says he regrets that the figure wasn’t labelled to point this out.