<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;here-s-first-person-spot-those-gravitational-waves" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;here-s-first-person-s...</a><p>&quot; On 14 September 2015, while Drago was on the phone with a LIGO colleague in Italy, his pipeline sent him an email alert—of which he receives about one each day—telling him that both LIGO detectors had registered an “event” (a nonroutine reading) 3 minutes earlier, at 11:50:45 a.m. local time. It was a big one. “The signal-to-noise ratio was quite high—24 as opposed to [the more typical] 10,” he says.&quot;