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Replace this text \textbf{Left:} Al 'Surfer' Einstein riding excited about gravitational waves (adapted from a Mark Summers artwork). \textbf{Right:} A very specific gravitational waves signal called a "chirp" is expected when two black holes do merge. First the two black holes orbit each other and go through an inspiral phase in which their orbit decays due to the progressive energy loss into gravitational waves. As the orbit shrinks, the orbital speed of the black holes increases to values of about 50\% the speed of light, with
your caption the frequency of the generated gravitational waves increasing accordingly. The amplitude of the gravitational waves increases too, until the two black holes finally coalesce and the gravitational waves emission reaches a peak. After that the newly formed, more massive black hole goes through a sort of adjustment phase called ring-down. The mass of the black holes, their distance and other important parameters can be reconstructed by looking at the particular properties of this very distinctive chirp signal.
