@badastro@mastodon.social “I remember when I first sat down and calculated this myself. The answer I got for the torrential gravitational waves spawned by a stellar-mass black hole collision was a number that was so immense that I thought I’d made a mistake.” There’s a certain romance in someone sitting down and manually confirming the absolute immensity and incomprehensibility of the cosmos, lifting the veil themselves. I’m jealous of your ability to do so; fantastic write-up!