Artist’s impression of two merging black holes, with accretion disks. The density and energy of the matter here should be insufficient to create gamma ray or X-ray bursts, but you never know what nature holds. Image credit: NASA / Dana Berry (Skyworks Digital).

LIGO-VIRGO Detects The First Three-Detector Gravitational Wave

Three eyes are so much better than two. Here’s why.

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5 min readOct 5, 2017

“Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.” -Richard Feynman

LIGO-VIRGO Detects The First Three-Detector Gravitational Wave

Three eyes are so much better than two. Here’s why.

Written by Ethan Siegel