What did the Caltech LIGO team expect ahead of this observation?
Channel: LIGO Lab Caltech : MIT
Date: 11/02/2016

On August 13, 2015, we asked experimentalists and theorists on the Caltech LIGO team what they expected to find during Observation Run 1. Just one month later, on September 14, both detectors picked up the unmistakeable signature of two merging black holes - the first direct detection of gravitational waves.

More information: http://ligo.caltech.edu

Filmed at the LIGO Gravitational Wave Q&A on August 13, 2015
Tolman/Bacher House, Caltech

Moderator: Christina Ochoa
Panelists: Kip Thorne, Sarah Gossan, Rana Adhikari

Produced by Academic Media Technologies
Editing and animation by Meg Rosenburg
Location provided by the Keck Institute for Space Studies