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by _Microft 1041 days ago
LIGO detects gravitational waves in the frequency range of hundreds of Hertz (10^2 Hz), which are produced in the last moments of the in-spiraling of merging neutron stars or blackholes.

Nanohertz are 10^-9 Hz which relate to a rotational period of decades of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational-wave_astronomy