Physical Review Letters· 2017Q1
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
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Gravitational waves detected from a binary black hole merger (GW170104) reveal component masses of 31.2 and 19.4 solar masses, with an effective spin parameter of -0.12, disfavoring aligned spins.
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