# # Translatable strings # -------------------- # # The following English language strings are present in the infographic. # - Discovered - 14 August 2017 - Distance - 1.7 billion light years - BBH - Binary Black Hole Merger - Cascina, Italy - Hanford, Washington, USA - Livingston, Louisiana, USA - GW170814 is the first Gravitational Wave event which was detected by three interferometers: the Advanced LIGO detectors in the USA, and Advanced Virgo in Italy. - Premerger - Merger - Postmerger - suns <<>> - GW energy - A third detector allows us to be about 10 times more precise about where the event originated in the sky.