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Promotion of this wonderful achievement is intense and expected giving the push to elevate gravity wave astronomy as the cutting edge.
Look at the stirred up controversy re the lady partly responsible for the key algorithm and the gossip type nonsence getting air time. All irrelevant but perfect to draw attention from folk who would never have given black holes a passing glance.
The promotion has been expertly managed and I suspect part of a bigger picture to attract research funds to GR in general.
Meanwhile science benefits from the hustle to popularise black holes.
But what we need for all this stuff is competing research teams so one can review the work of the other...if not for the space race we never would have put men on the Moon..and such an approach not only would double the available jobs for scientists but also have competitors seeking to get a better result than the most recent produced by their competitor.
Still all funding is best directed to building battle stars so we can involve the military budget☺
Alex
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