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#3 Chiara Mingarelli - NANOGrav, Background Gravitational Waves, Black Holes

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How LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves

If you could listen to a binary black hole merger, the sound that you could hear would go like this. With the final thing at the end being the chirp where they're merging. And that's when they collide. So if this was a chord or sound, a note being played on our instrument, the pitch would go up as the murder gets closer and closer towards spiraling into each other. I feel like you're trying to trigger me to do the sound,. which I will happily make.

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