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confirms-gr
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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.
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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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