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How do they know it’s black holes colliding and not just large stars?

Extensive computer modeling is used to predict the expected waveforms, and then we fit the observed waveforms to the expected ones.

Cool thx

Isn't it more like you fit actually noise to expected forms, and out comes the expected form?

At least someone explained it like this to me.

Maybe electromagnetic signals can disambiguate the two phenomena?