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@LIGO
Please find us on other platforms This was the official Twitter of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. We detect gravitational waves! Email: [email protected]
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    LIGO
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    Jan 13
    We are happy to share our latest news and discoveries on several platforms. Please come and find us 🦋 ligo.org 🐘 [email protected] 📷 ligo_virgo 📘 LIGO Scientific Collaboration #SciComm #GravitationalWaves
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    LIGO
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    Feb 11, 2016
    #GravitationalWaves detected from #BinaryBlackHole 100y after Einstein's prediction. #EinsteinWasRight
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    LIGO
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    Sep 2, 2020
    We are excited to announce the discovery of #GW190521, observed by @LIGO and @ego_virgo on May 21st 2019: the most massive binary #BlackHoles merger detected yet! Read the full story at ligo.org/detections/GW1…
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    LIGO
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    Oct 16, 2017
    Event observed in #GravitationalWaves and all bands of EM: gamma-ray, optical, UV, IR, x-ray, radio
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    LIGO
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    Jun 30, 2019
    Signal in LIGO/Virgo data. Probable candidate two black holes. Observed 3 minutes ago. See more at: gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S1…
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    LIGO
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    Sep 27, 2017
    Three-detector observation of #GravitationalWaves from #blackhole merger #GW170814 by @LIGO & @ego_virgo ligo.org/detections/ #BravoVirgo
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    LIGO
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    Nov 16, 2017
    We are happy to announce the detection of #GW170608, #GravitationalWaves from a 19-solar-mass binary #BlackHole coalescence! arxiv.org/pdf/1711.05578…
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    LIGO
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    Apr 20, 2020
    We are excited to announce the discovery of #GW190412, the first binary #BlackHoles merger detected by @LIGO and @ego_virgo with clear evidence for unequal mass components. Read all about it at ligo.org #GravitationalWaves
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    LIGO
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    Oct 3, 2017
    The 2017 @NobelPrize for Physics goes to @LIGO scientists for discovery of #GravitationalWaves!
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    LIGO
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    Oct 16, 2017
    "Wake up!" @NASAFermi! @LIGO and @ego_virgo have detected #GravitationalWaves to go with your #GammaRayBurst
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    LIGO
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    Nov 3, 2018
    Replying to @Rainmaker1973 and @ProfBrianCox
    One of the really cool things about binary black hole is that if two similar mass black holes merge, you always get about the same power: two black holes 5 times the mass of the Sun give the same power as two black holes 5 billion times the mass of the Sun
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    LIGO
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    Oct 16, 2017
    LIGO, Virgo, and partners make the first detection of #GravityAndLight from colliding neutron stars! ligo.org/detections/GW1…
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    LIGO
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    Jun 29, 2021
    The masses of #GW200105 & #GW200115 reveal a new type of #GravitationalWaves source: our first confirmed detections of #NeutronStar #BlackHole binaries merging! This plot shows the estimated masses of our new sources on the left, in blue and orange ligo.org/science/Public…
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    LIGO
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    Feb 11, 2016
    For #DayOfWomenInScience, we thank the amazing female scientists who made #GravitationalWaves detection possible!
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