'Black Hole Blues': Book Chronicles Gravitational Wave Detector

A new book chronicles the 50-year odyssey that culminated in the first direct detection of gravitational waves. "Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space" (Knopf, 2016), the newest book by astrophysicist and author Janna Levin, may have had the most fortuitous release date of any book in science-writing history. The story that Levin recounts took place over 50 years, and the book itself has been cooking for about five.