First direct detection: 36+29 solar-mass black-hole merger at 1.3 Gly; SNR 24; 21 cycles in band; chirp-mass 30 solar masses; matched theoretical waveform to within statistical-noise; LIGO-O1 era; Nobel 2017.
First direct detection: 36+29 solar-mass black-hole merger at 1.3 Gly; SNR 24; 21 cycles in band; chirp-mass 30 solar masses; matched theoretical waveform to within statistical-noise; LIGO-O1 era; Nobel 2017.