Because this is astrophysics and not particle physics, this discovery is just the beginning!  We don&#x27;t know the rates of these mergers, the distribution of the masses of the binary components, what electromagnetic signature accompanies the events (if any)...<p>We&#x27;ve known gravity waves existed since the Hulse-Taylor pulsar, so just observing them for the first time is not nearly as interesting as the science to come in the next decade.  Advanced LIGO is a powerful new tool that will open up exciting new observations.