GW151226
GW151226 was a gravitational wave signal detected by the LIGO observatory on 25 December 2015 local time (26 Dec 2015 UTC). On 15 June 2016, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations announced that they had verified the signal, making it the second such signal confirmed, after GW150914, which had been announced four months earlier the same year, and the third gravitational wave signal detected.
GW151226 observed by the LIGO Hanford (left column) and Livingston (right column) detectors. | |
| Total energy output | ~ 1 M☉ × c2 |
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| Other designations | GW151226 |
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