LIGO is very serious about doing blinded test runs, even going as far as writing the whole paper before they check whether the signal was real. There&#x27;s only a couple of people in the entire collaboration who even know when the blinded test runs occur. In any case, this rumor has been going around for a couple of months, so if it&#x27;s true, we should know soon. Between this and the LHC blip, I&#x27;m quite excited about the next couple of months.