GW150914 first direct detection (2015-09-14)

Layer 1 — Physicsin the Gravitational Wave Physics subtree

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.

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