NASA announce the source of the gravitational waves is not merging of two black holes.

Let's think about this,, NASA with thousands of scientists , miss a simple trick?

Possible if they are hoodwinked by conventioanal classical gravity

Andrew, thanks for your question! It is really the paradox of BH merging and the concept of BH itself - it is impossible for distant observer to see formation of BH and also to see coalescence of newly formed BH. This is because in general relativity there is no clear understanding of the physical sense of the system of coordinates.

There are many paradoxes of the BH concept. For example in the paper by Chowdhury&Krawss   http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0187  they emphasized that BH cannot form because it evaporates (Hawking radiation) before the horizon formation.

Another paradox is the infinite binding energy of BH - due to infinite force of gravity - nothing can escape from BH. However before BH formation the binding energy of a collapsing star or merging binary system was finite. So there is no energy conservation during the formation of BH.

@Yurij

Yes good answer. But herein the solution to those problems.

Fact is that the infinite time dilation at the event horizon does not in reality exist.

Its just a quirky paradox of the maths of GTR 

These along with other paradoxes can be lifted by reformulating the maths

Einstein did not predict the existence of black holes, in fact he denied their existence in a paper published in 1936, Simply because that would imply the existence of singularities, with infinite density and zero time passage at the event horizon.

The force of gravity in General relativity  (GTR) is thought to come form the curvature of space-time.

Unfortunately the maths of GTR implies infinite curvature and zero time passage at the black hole event horizon  and the black hole becomes a singularity- and yet the black hole has a radius.

The Misner Wheeler Thorne interpretation partially resolved this in  that the singularity rests inside the event horizon.

But yet another paradox arises if time stops at the event horizon (frozen star) no matter would fall in hence  black hole could not accumulate matter, and all the in-falling matter would be situated at or near the event horizon, hence the firewall.

The solution is to alter the maths of GR.

Additionally GR falls down in a number of areas, so any new maths should also resolve these problems

Yes GR works in the weak fields of the the solar system, and Intermediate

fields of neutron stars. 

1). It produces infinite density singularities in the very strong fields

such as in black holes.

2).It does not necessarily explain dark matter in galaxy cores where we

know super-massive black holes exist and the galactic dark matter

therein,

3). It does not explain dark mater present in galactic halo's,and galactic

clusters such as the bullet cluster,

4).It does not explain the presence of cosmological dark matter as a whole.

5). It has not yet been fully corroborated by the studies of neutron stars

and in black holes.

6). It does not easily explain the presence of dark energy and cannot be

translated in quantum gravity.

7). It predicts that time stops at the event horizon

Here I enclose a number of publications which explain all of these

phenomena, whilst agreeing with the results of GR where it has been

thoroughly tested.

1).First to obviate the infinite density singularities.

1a)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32897680_An_advanced_dynamic_adaptation_of_Newtonian_equations_of_gravity?ev=prf_pub

1b)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269689554_The_formulation_of_Dynamic_Newtonian_advanced_gravity_DNAg?ev=prf_pub

2).Secondly we explain the presence of dark matter at the centre of the

galaxy.

2a)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228858219_Advances_in_Black_Hole_Gravitational_Physics_and_Cold_Dark_Matter_Modelling._The_Gravity_of_Dark_Matter

3) Thirdly it is possible to explain the presence of dark matter in the

galactic halo.

3a)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269689929_Advances_in_Black_Hole_Physics_and_Dark_Matter_Modelling_of_the_Galactic_Halo?ev=prf_pub

4). It is able to explain the presence of cosmological dark matter

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32897680_An_advanced_dynamic_adaptation_of_Newtonian_equations_of_gravity

5). It is corroborated in neutron stars (including Data from radiation

damping ) and is corroborated by black hole studies.

5a)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32888463_An_advanced_modification_of_dynamicgravitation

5b).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269667939_Corroboration_of_Dynamic_Black_Hole_Gravitational_Physics_from_Observations_of_Cygnus_X-1

6) it explains dark energy and translates into quantum gravity

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32899306_String_quintessence_and_the_formulation_of_advanced_quantum_gravity

7). It does not offer infinite time dilation at the event horizon

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287213872_Finite_Gravitational_Time_Dilation_In_Black_Holes_Using_Dynamic_Newtonian_Advanced_Gravity_DNAg

Article An advanced dynamic adaptation of Newtonian equations of gravity

Article The formulation of dynamic Newtonian advanced gravity, DNAg

Article Advances in Black Hole Gravitational Physics and Cold Dark M...

Article Advances in Black Hole Physics and Dark Matter Modelling of ...

Article An advanced modification of dynamic gravitation

Article Corroboration of Dynamic Black Hole Gravitational Physics fr...

Article String quintessence and the formulation of advanced quantum gravity

Article Finite gravitational time dilation in black holes using dyna...

Dear Andrew, unfortunately your "solution" of BH paradoxes looks very naïve. It has no serious physical foundation, just ad hoc assumptions, which cannot convince any professional gravity physicists.

A serious idea is to conserve the concept of force in relativistic gravity theory. In modern theoretical physics it is known as Feynman's Field Gravity approach. FG has very general foundation, based on Lagrangian  formalism, conserves the concept of force, exclude BH and horizons and predicts new testable experiments and observations. See e.g.  http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2323  and  the book

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-94-007-2379-5

It doesn't need to be complicated, complication for complications sake is a modern twist to physics

It needs to answer the question of black hole event horizons, agree with experiment and explain new phenomena such as dark matter.

All these problems are solved using the same paradigm - but I guess you can't take the time reading it properly - which is good in a way.

The light would be too distorted to provide a view of the brief merger time.