Illustration of the first gravitational wave event observed by LIGO (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

Illustration of the first gravitational wave event observed by LIGO

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Illustration of the first gravitational wave event observed by LIGO. The detected wave forms from LIGO Hanford (orange) and LIGO Livingston (blue) are superimposed beneath illustrations of the merging black holes.

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Aurore Simmonet (Sonoma State University), Courtesy Caltech/MIT/LIGO Laboratory

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