https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1710.05938/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483954urn:hackerpapers:mention:1710.05938:16483954Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:18:13 GMT<p>This is not correct, the nature of gravitational waves emitted by the merging of two objects is different in its final stage, depending whether the objects form a black hole or not. Until a black hole is formed, the nature of the emission is the same for all objects (e.g. black holes or neutron stars), but if a black hole forms, the final emission (ringdown) is different. The first LIGO-Virgo events detected black hole mergers which resulted in black holes. The last LIGO-Virgo event detected two neutron star mergers. Unfortunately the sensitivity of the apparatus is not good enough to…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1710.05938/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.HE