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Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...
To study this merger, scientists had to use advanced models that account for how fast-spinning black holes behave—a ...
A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...
A strophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the mass of the sun. The violent collision between the spinning objects, one ...
At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.
A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current ...
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...
The White House's 2026 budget proposal threatens dozens of active and upcoming science missions designed to explore the ...
Scientists say the two black holes merged after colliding at speeds near the limit allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of ...
The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...
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 Trump administration.
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