I thought that one of the previous posters had said that the waves themselves had been validated astrophysically but what is news here is that an earthbound detector had detected them. Is that more or less accurate?
The journal NATURE reported that subsequent verification experiments kept lowering the confidence levels of the original finding in the peer reviewed publication’s results to the point were it is considered erroneous. It was suspected that galactic dust may have altered the measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation and led to a possible erroneous finding. So, the search is still on to find the suspected gravitational waves by one or more of the other competing experiments. These rumors suggest such a discovery may have occurred and the research team is working to avoid having their experimental becoming unconfirmed by other independent projects.