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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.
Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...
Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...
Scientists say the two black holes merged after colliding at speeds near the limit allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of ...
What occurs when the universe plays a cosmic curveball, breaking down long-standing assumptions about how black holes form?
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...
Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.