[+] The Universe is Not Silent. It has a Soundtrack.
For fifty years, a small group of obsessed scientists risked their careers, their friendships, and their sanity to record a sound that many thought didn't exist: the "song" of two black holes colliding.
[+] The Story of the Century
In 1916, Einstein predicted gravitational waves-ripples in the fabric of spacetime. A century later, Janna Levin gives us the definitive "behind-the-scenes" account of LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and the eccentric geniuses who spent decades building a machine capable of hearing the universe.
Witness the moment humans finally learned to listen to the stars.