Popular Science Articles

Scientific American:

• ​Searching for the Gravitational Waves LIGO Can't Hear, by Chiara Mingarelli
• Colliding Supermassive Black Holes Discovered in Nearby Galaxy by Allison Parshall
• Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Megamergers Are Weaker Than Predicted, by Shannon Hall for Space.com

CNN:

• A galactic merger brought a pair of supermassive black holes together​, by Ashley Strickland

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Nautilus Magazine: ​​

• The Hidden Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves, by Sarah Scoles 
• ​The Gravity Wave Hunter, by Michael Segal
• #SparkOfScience, part of The Gravity Wave Hunter interview
• What it's like to be a female gravity wave hunter, highlight from "The Gravity Wave Hunter"
• Top 5 Targets of a Gravity Wave Observatory, by Brian Gallagher
• Nautilus Magazine: Why it's hard for black holes to get together, by Kate Becker

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Wall Street Journal: ​​

• Image of Black Hole at Center of Milky Way Galaxy Is Unveiled, by Aylin Woodward
• Gravity Waves Detected, Verifying Part of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, by Lee Hotz

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Popular Mechanics:

•  Second Gravitational Wave Discovery Confirmed, by William Herkewitz

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Sky & Telescope:

• ​LIGO detects second black hole collision, by Shannon Hall


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​Horizons Magazine: ​

• ​What's next for gravitational waves?, by Ethan Bilby.

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Gizmodo: ​

• We Could Soon Find Even More Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Arrays, by Jennifer Ouellette
• Gizmodo: We've Found Gravitational Waves. Now What?, by Jennifer Ouellette (en español aqui)

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Wired:

• LIGO’s First-Ever Detection of Gravitational Waves Opens a New Window on the Universe, by Sarah Scoles
• Wired Magazine: Astrophysicists may have found gravitational waves. Or not. by Sarah Scoles 

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​​APS 

• ​​APS News: Gravitational Waves Caught in the Act, by Emily Conover

New Scientist:

•  Black hole batteries could power mysterious radio bursts, by Sarah Scoles
• New Scientist (In Brief): Black hole batteries could power mysterious radio bursts
• New Scientist -- print version "Weird flashes run on black hole batteries”, Magazine issue 3049 published 28 Nov. 2015

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I Fucking Love Science:

•  What's Causing These Mysterious Radio Bursts From Beyond Our Galaxy?, by Alfredo Carpineti

Astrobites 

• "Fast Radio Bursts: Shocking Neutron Stars with Black Hole Batteries", a popular summary of Mingarelli, Levin, Lazio (2015), "Fast radio bursts and radio transients from black hole batteries".

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BBC 

• 2013: BBC Stargazing Live at the University of Birmingham (download here)
• 2013: Outreach Activities for BBC Stargazing Live 2013 (IoP Women in physics newsletter)
• 2012:  The Dark Side of Gravity, SatNav Article (full article)