This Blogger seems to have an inordinately high ratio of astrophysicists reading the MAXEY CHRONICLES. Perhaps because this Blogger dabbles in cosmology; believing that the trek to confirming the existence of God is through the anomalies, mysteries and consistencies currently being discovered by astrophysicists. Recently there has been an uptick in observations of black holes merging with neutron stars. “ O n august 14th, just after 9pm Universal Time, a ripple of gravitational waves reached Earth. Until a few years ago no one would have noticed such an event. But 2015 saw the reopening, after an upgrade, of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (ligo), a pair of detectors in Washington state and Louisiana. These were joined in 2017 by Virgo, an upgraded instrument in Italy. Together, the three instruments not only recorded the wave’s passage, they also worked out where in the sky it had come from and then texted that information to the world’