Captions : I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. Howard Hodgkin

Captions : It’s a spectacular signal. It’s a signal many of us have wanted to observe since the time LIGO was proposed. It shows the dynamics of objects in the strongest gravitational fields imaginable, a domain where Newton’s gravity doesn’t work at all, and one needs the fully non-linear Einstein field equations to explain the phenomena. Rainer Weiss