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GW170814 Three-Detector Black Hole Merger

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2017

David Shoemaker14 August 2017

Science / Physics

During his leadership of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, LIGO and Virgo make their first three-detector observation of a binary black hole merger.

Names involved

David Shoemaker

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