[Cthulhu_]

> It is also worth noting that any claims of detection are thoroughly investigated and confirmed with other detectors.

This is the thing I (as a layperson) can't really wrap my head around yet; there's gotta be so much interference from so many different sources, there's gotta be some impressive data processing going on to filter out anything not relevant to their core measurements, and then THAT data will have to be compared to that of other detectors.

This device, the LHC, space telescopes, really cool and all if you look at the published pop-sci results, but the actual data is like... individual photons captured by a worldwide network of detectors and processed / data analyzed into the first "photo" of a black hole.

[Daneel_]

I believe there’s three LIGO detectors stationed in different parts of the world which greatly helps with the noise reduction.