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The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.
Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...
In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) directly detected gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, for the first time ever—almost exactly one century after ...
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...
A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...
A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...
It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...