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What is the expected rate of detection of gravitational waves from a population of intermediate-mass black holes in a given time period, and what can we learn about the characteristics of these black holes from their gravitational wave signatures?
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Deep Thought is thinking for 7.5 million years.

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The answer is 42.

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