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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration Publication date (Created): 2016-02-11 ArXiV ID: 1602.03837 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102 On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave signal. The signal sweeps upwards in frequency from 35 to 250 Hz with a peak gravitational-wave strain […]