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Old 11-19-2017, 12:45 AM   #11
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'; when they collided, a flash of light in the form of gamma rays was emitted and seen on Earth about two seconds after the gravitational waves.'

That's what I was referring to. Seemed important.
The gravitational waves were generated before the collision, they had a head start. Over 130 million years the Gamma rays caught up but the gravitational waves won by a nose.
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