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What Did LIGO Actually See?
- gus_massa 11y agoI didn't like the first answer too much. In particular the black holes were not aligned with the detectors, the time difference is smaller than the time that the light needs to travel from one detector to the other. I prefer the second: > The nature of the detectors is that they act like a microphone, as opposed to a camera. [...] and the last: > According to the GW150914 tutorial, this is what Advanced LIGO L1 and H1 detectors originally saw: [...]