&gt; I feel really sorry for the scientists who&#x27;ve spent decades working on this as part of a global collaboration to now have LIGO take all of the credit for this discovery.<p>You might as well say the same thing about CERN and the Higgs. That&#x27;s how credit for discoveries works. You can&#x27;t just give it to &quot;the whole scientific community&quot; so you pick the most specific attribution that makes sense.