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What produced LIGO's first direct gravitational-wave detection in 2015?

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  1. A solar flare
  2. Two merging black holes
  3. A planet crossing a star

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  1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger dcc.ligo.org/P150914/public Checked 2026-10-10.

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