Abstract
Sigooxga Like most mothers, Sharon Yellowfly would do anything for her children. Unlike most parents, she has pulled an all-nighter for her son’s job to translate a press release about colliding neutron stars into the Native American language of Blackfoot, or Siksika. This all started back in 2016, when the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory—you can call it LIGO—detected gravitational waves for the first time. The signal emanated from two black holes merging into one. The measurement confirmed a 100-year-old prediction of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. LIGO wanted to share the news with the world by translating the press release of the discovery. Corey Gray, Yellowfly’s son and the lead operator of LIGO’s observatory in Hanford, Washington, wanted to help. He got permission to share an embargoed copy of the press release and asked his mom to translate it for the Siksika Nation, of which they are both members.
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