The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array collaboration has been awarded a Frontiers of Science Award at the 2024 International Congress of Basic Science . Andrew Zic accepted the award on behalf of the collaboration, which was given in recognition of the publication “The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array third data release” last year. The dataset presented in this publication led to the first evidence of weak, long-period ripples in the fabric of space and time called gravitational waves. The PPTA, which began in 2004, uses Murriyang, the Parkes Radio Telescope to search for the long-period gravitational waves produced by pairs of supermassive binary black holes at the heart of distant galaxies. By looking for tiny delays in the pulsar signals, the team can form a gravitational-wave detector the size of the Milky Way, opening a new window into the Universe. The image above shows Andrew and International Pulsar Timing Array colleagues making the Chinese gesture for the number 6, in hope of achieving a 6-sigma detection for gravitational waves in the near future.