GW150914 remnant

BLACK HOLEStellar-mass black hole

NO ACCRETION · SCHWARZSCHILD FROM 62 M☉ · ACCRETION NONE

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OVERVIEW

] BLACK HOLE

GW150914 remnant is a stellar-mass black hole, 1.300 from Earth. Its mass is 62.00 . It was discovered in 2015.

The black hole born from the first gravitational waves ever detected — two black holes spiraling together, converting three solar masses into a chirp of spacetime ripples.

WHAT IT IS: Stellar-mass black hole
HOW FAR: 1.300

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CATALOG DATA

] 2 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

WHAT IT IS MADE OF

What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.

Accretion state: none — a merger remnant, with nothing left to accrete
Mass: 62

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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 1 DESIGNATIONS

Gravitational wave event GW150914

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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 2 SERVICES

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

SIMBADGW150914
Cross-identifications, measured values and the reference behind each of them.
ADSobject:"GW150914"
Papers indexed against this object rather than against the string, newest first.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT

SpaceCatalog. GW150914 remnant [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/gw150914

BIBTEX

@misc{spacecatalog_gw150914,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{GW150914 remnant}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/gw150914},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from SpaceCatalog curated data.}
}

The values above were taken from SpaceCatalog curated data — CC-BY-4.0. Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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