Now, with its machine learning model, the team is once again enhancing LIGO by allowing engineers there to distinguish between terrestrial glitches and signals of gravitational waves. Szabolcs Márka, who has worked on LIGO research for two decades and is married to Zsuzca, said the machine learning method represents a breakthrough in astronomical research that will allow for more "fascinating discoveries about the fabric of the cosmos." Robert Colgan and John Wright are adept at data science, he said, while he and Zsuzsa are astrophysicists, a combination of skills that make for "an amazing and transformational team."