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Thanks FieldTheorist and Orodruin - very comprehensive replies. Supposing that these gravitational waves indeed originated from these two black holes - do we expect LIGO to detect more gravitational waves from this same event?

I'd like to understand the details behind the LIGO experiment a bit better: How do scientists know that the gravitational waves detected by LIGO originated from two specific black holes (located a billion light years away)?Does the LIGO result confirm the existence of black holes?Was it only...