CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger — Physical Review Letters
- Key
- abbott2016gw150914
- Authors
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration; Virgo Collaboration
- Issued
- 2016-2-11
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Physical Review Letters
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 061102
Raw CSL JSON
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"DOI": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102",
"URL": "https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102",
"page": "061102",
"type": "article-journal",
"issue": "6",
"title": "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger",
"author": [
{
"literal": "LIGO Scientific Collaboration"
},
{
"literal": "Virgo Collaboration"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
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2016,
2,
11
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"volume": "116",
"container-title": "Physical Review Letters"
}
Claims
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The GW150914 detection confirmed a major prediction of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and opened a new observational window on the universe.
"our observations provide unique access to the properties of space-time in the strong-field, high-velocity regime and confirm predictions of general relativity for the nonlinear dynamics of highly disturbed black holes"
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On September 14, 2015, the two LIGO detectors simultaneously observed a gravitational-wave signal (GW150914) consistent with the inspiral and merger of two black holes of approximately 36 and 29 solar masses, with about 3 solar masses radiated as gravitational waves.
"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."
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