Latest LIGO/Virgo Detection Marks Dawn of a New Era: Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Speaking today at a press conference in western Italy, scientists from the LIGO and Virgo collaborations reported new results detailing the observation of yet another gravitational wave signal, this one emanating from a source at least a billion light years away.If you've been keeping up with astrophysics news recently, it might seem that gravitational wave detections are now becoming so frequent that this colossally energetic merging of astronomical bodies could be described as "humdrum". Howev...