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Advanced LIGO has come online sometime in the last 10 days[1] and there is a rumour that it has already detected a gravitational wave[2].

[1] http://news.mit.edu/2015/advanced-ligo-begins-operations-091...

[2] https://twitter.com/LKrauss1/status/647510799678750720

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I work in numerical relativity and our group produces many, many gravitational waveforms. I even visited LIGO this past summer. If Lawrence Krauss isn't bullshitting (and I have no reason to doubt he would be) then this is absolutely huge news. Nobel Prize worthy discovery no question.

That will be huge if true. Gravity wave will tell us many things about the very early universe(first few 100,1000s of years!), for which we have very little data now. Its an amazing achievement for LIGO just after 10 days of its start.

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