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{{Bibliographic Record
|Title=Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
|Resource Type=journal article
|Author=Benjamin Abbott,
|Year=2016
|Abstract=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. It matches the waveform predicted by general relativity for the inspiral and merger of a pair of black holes and the ringdown of the resulting single black hole. These observations demonstrate the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems. This is the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first observation of a binary black hole merger.
|URL=https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
|Page Status=Stub
|Journal=Physical Review lettters
|Volume=116
|Pages=061102-1-15
}}
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