http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime...

Die Laufzeitdifferenz entspricht dem Abstand von Hanford nach Lousiana, da sich Gravitationswellen mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit ausbreiten.

"Comparison with computer simulations reveals that the wave came from two objects 29 and 36 times as massive as the sun spiraling to within 210 kilometers of each other before merging."

Korrekt: sie rotieren um den gemeinsamen Schwerpunkt.

"If LIGO’s discovery merits a Nobel Prize, who should receive it? Scientists say Rainer Weiss (MIT) is a shoo-in, but he demurs. “I don’t like to think of it,” he says. “If it wins a Nobel Prize, it shouldn’t be for the detection of gravitational waves. Hulse and Taylor did that.” Many researchers say other worthy recipients would include Ronald Drever, the first director of the project at Caltech who made key contributions to LIGO’s design, and Kip Thorne, the Caltech theorist who championed the project. Thorne also objects. “The people who really deserve the credit are the experimenters who pulled this off, starting with Rai and Ron,” he says.

Meanwhile, other detections may come quickly. LIGO researchers are still analyzing data from their first observing run with their upgraded detectors, which ended 12 January, and they plan to start taking data again in July. A team in Italy hopes to turn on its rebuilt VIRGO detector—an interferometer with 3-kilometer arms—later this year. Physicists eagerly await the next wave."