How the hunt for black holes causes a rift in physics

The story of the search for gravitational waves is ostensibly a grandiose tale, involving billions of light-years of space, decades of preparation, and multimillion-dollar instruments. The backstory to that detection, brought to us by the theoretical physicist Janna Levin in "Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space," is even more extraordinary.
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