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File:BBH gravitational lensing of gw150914.webm, featured edit

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Info created by http://www.black-holes.org/ - uploaded by Selecsosi - nominated by Pine -- Pine^✉ 03:53, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Pine^✉ 03:53, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Video explanation: "Video simulation of the view which would be seen by a close observer, of the final merger of GW150914, showing the distortion of the star-field from gravity as the black holes orbit and merge." From the English Wikipedia article First observation of gravitational waves: "The first observation of gravitational waves on 14 September 2015 was announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016. Gravitational waves had previously been observed only indirectly, through their effect on the timing of pulsars in binary systems. The waveform, detected by both LIGO observatories, matched the predictions of general relativity for a gravitational wave emanating from the inward spiral and merger of a pair of black holes and subsequent "ringdown" of the single resulting black hole. The signal was named GW150914."

Support INeverCry 07:06, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wow! Also high EV. Yann (talk) 08:21, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support I watched this three times on my time line of twitter in last three days :) --Laitche (talk) 09:04, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support The whole world have contemplated it. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 12:26, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Super! I'm glad the video played for me today. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:46, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:39, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stunning. --Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:52, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fantastic! --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 08:31, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great and high EV. $Jacopo Werther iγ\partialψ=mψ$ 13:58, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 14:50, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 06:51, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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