Bhmerger_ligo_3600

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

About the Image
Date
February 11, 2016
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Type
Artwork
Credit
Aurore Simmonet (Sonoma State University)