âThe first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced on February 11, 2016, spawned headlines around the world, snagged the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, and officially launched a new era of so-called âmulti-messengerâ astronomy. But a team of physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, is calling that detection into questionâŠâ
âAndrew Jackson and his group have been saying for the past few years that LIGOâs detections are not real,â says LIGO Executive Director David Reitze of Caltech. âTheir analysis has been looked at by many people who have all concluded there is absolutely no validity to their claims.â Reitze characterized the New Scientist article as âvery biased and sensational.â
âNothing theyâve done gives us any reason to doubt our results.â