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Some inside information from Cliff Burgess:
"Spies who have seen the paper say they have seen gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. they claim that the two detectors detected it consistent with it moving at speed c given the distance between them, and quote an equivalent 5.1 sigma detection. the black hole masses were 36 and 29 solar masses initially an 62 at the end. Apparently the signal is spectacular, and they even see the ring-down to kerr at the end."
The last phrase refers to the Kerr solution of Einstein's equations describing a stationary rotating black hole. When the two black hole merge, the final state is typically a rotating black hole, not the static Schwarzschild black hole. Cliff says the paper will come out in Nature on Feb. 11, simultaneous with press releases.
"Spies who have seen the paper say they have seen gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. they claim that the two detectors detected it consistent with it moving at speed c given the distance between them, and quote an equivalent 5.1 sigma detection. the black hole masses were 36 and 29 solar masses initially an 62 at the end. Apparently the signal is spectacular, and they even see the ring-down to kerr at the end."
The last phrase refers to the Kerr solution of Einstein's equations describing a stationary rotating black hole. When the two black hole merge, the final state is typically a rotating black hole, not the static Schwarzschild black hole. Cliff says the paper will come out in Nature on Feb. 11, simultaneous with press releases.
