Cosmic Exploration · discovery
Gravitational Waves
2015 · Kip Thorne, Barry Barish, Rainer Weiss
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- 2015
Description
GW150914: two black holes of 36 and 29 solar masses merging 1.3 billion light-years away, shifting LIGO's 4 km arms by a fraction of a proton's width. The signal was so clean it was initially suspected of being an injected test.
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