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Re: Astronomers exploit a remarkable supermassive black hole binary system to measure the primary black hole's spin

From moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Astronomers exploit a remarkable supermassive black hole binary system to measure the primary black hole's spin
Date 2016-03-11 22:19 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> writes:

>> At a distance of some 3.5 billion light years, OJ 287 is a
>> remarkable binary supermassive black hole system sitting at a
>> galaxy's core; two giant holes in bound in mutual orbit. The primary
>> black hole weighs in at around 18 billion solar masses, the secondary
>> at a mere 150 million solar masses.

How big of a signal in LIGO would that produce upon merger?

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Astronomers exploit a remarkable supermassive black hole binary system to measure the primary black hole's spin Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 13:24 -0600
  Re: Astronomers exploit a remarkable supermassive black hole binary system to measure the primary black hole's spin moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-03-11 22:19 +0000
    Re: Astronomers exploit a remarkable supermassive black hole binary system to measure the primary black hole's spin Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 16:38 -0600

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