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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... a pair of black holes coalesced resulting in largest gravitational wave we've seen

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Re: Not a "Fwoop"

For a compression wave the amplitude is necessarily less than the wavelength. My back-of-a-fag-packet calculation was only to get the order of magnitude, not a more accurate figure.

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