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A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...
The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...
The Trump administration has called for shutting down either a Tri-Cities, WA, or Louisiana observatory that work in tandem.
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...
Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...
A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...
A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current astrophysical models. The clash formed a 225-solar-mass monster, possibly made ...
The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.