2016年2月11日,LIGO科学合作组织和Virgo合作团队宣布他们已经利用高级LIGO探测器,已经首次探测到了来自于双黑洞合并的引力波信号。 2016年6月16日凌晨,LIGO合作组宣布:2015年12月26日03:38:53 (UTC),位于美国汉福德区和路易斯安那州的利文斯顿的两台引力波探测器同时探测到了一个引力波信号;这是继 LIGO 2015年9月14日探测到首个引力波信号之后,人类探测到的第二个引力波信号。2017年8月17日,激光干涉引力波天文台(LIGO)和室女座引力波天文台(Virgo)首次发现双黑洞并合引力波事件,国际引力波电磁对应体观测联盟发现该引力波事件的电磁对应体。
On February 11, 2016, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration Group and the Virgo team announced that they have used advanced LIGO detectors and have detected gravitational wave signals from the combined dual black holes for the first time. In the early morning of June 16, 2016, the LIGO cooperation group announced: on December 26, 2015 03:38:53 (UTC), two gravitational wave detectors in Hanford, Louisiana, and Livingston, Louisiana were simultaneously A gravitational wave signal was detected; this is the second gravitational wave signal detected by humans after LIGO detected the first gravitational wave signal on September 14, 2015. On August 17, 2017, the laser interferometric gravitational wave observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo Gravitational Wave Observatory (Virgo) discovered for the first time a double black hole combined gravitational wave event. The International Gravitational Wave Electromagnetic Correspondence Observer Consortium discovered the electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave event. .