Gravitational Waves in Space Time

Imagine shaking your fist at somebody on the highway and sending ripples in space time over to his car. A road wave, imperceptible, rightye? We don't normaly think about those waves here n cathen california, but that's actually what happens. Now scale it up to the mass of a black holl - 30 times the mass of our sun. And as they move together, in the last moments before they kiss or collide with each other, they are emitting tremendous amounts of energy into space time itself. So this was the most violent motion of matter, and in the shortest possible period of time ever imaginable. In that sense, it will generate copious amounts