Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News
COLUMBUS, Ohio —
While the data was amassing, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of something gently rapping, rapping at LIGO’s door.
The source of a mysterious glitch in data from a gravitational wave detector has been unmasked: rap-tap-tapping ravens with a thirst for shaved ice. At the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, in the desert of…
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