LIGO Detected Gravitational Waves from Black Holes

LIGO1

No, this is not a waterfall of CW signals, but..

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 of 1.0 × 10−21.

The paper, Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, is here: http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102

LIGO2

Very nice and clean results just as is predicted by theories and simulations.

Go forward to 31m:11s.

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