Reflections on the decibel lead Joe Wolfe and Oleg Sushkov to considerations of infinite waveguides and to why we didn’t hear the LIGO black-hole merger.
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Wolfe, J., Sushkov, O.P. The sound of black holes fusing. Nat. Phys. 15, 1206 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0686-2
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