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Aerial view of LIGO's Livingston detector

Some physicists still doubt whether LIGO has seen gravitational waves

10 September 2019

LIGO has explained how it processes gravitational wave data in greater detail than ever before. But some physicists still say the analysis contains mistakes
LIGO's detectors

Exclusive: Grave doubts over LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves

31 October 2018

The news we had finally found ripples in space-time reverberated around the world in 2015. Now it seems they might have been an illusion

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