Illustration of the first gravitational wave event observed by LIGO
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. Originally created for the discovery announcement of GW150914, this illustration is the central image in a poster produced by the Contemporary Physics Education Project, which can be ordered through https://cpepphysics.org/gravitation
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- Date
- February 11, 2016
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- Artwork
- Credit
- Aurore Simmonet (Sonoma State University)