LIGO AND VIRGO RELEASE CATALOG OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EVENTS FROM FIRST AND SECOND OBSERVING RUNS

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Image credit: Teresita Ramirez / Geoffrey Lovelace / SXS Collaboration / LIGO-Virgo Collaboration

3 Dec 2018 — The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration have released the results of their search for stellar-mass coalescing compact binaries during the first and second observing runs using an advanced gravitational-wave detector network. This includes the confident detection of ten binary black hole mergers and one binary neutron star merger. Four of the ten black hole mergers are being reported for the first time and include the most distant and massive gravitational-wave source ever observed (GW170729).

For more information see the press release and the detection page for the O1/O2 Catalog.

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