Periodic Reporting for period 1 - HOMERICS (The History of Merging Compact-Object Binaries)

On February 11, 2016 the LIGO-Virgo scientific collaboration announced the detection of a gravitational-wave signal from two colliding black holes. The event was registered on September 14, 2015 and it was the first direct evidence that (i) black holes exist, (ii) black holes...