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At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...
The pair merged to create a single hole about 225 times the mass of the sun.
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...
A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed how two ...
Astrophysicists have analyzed two merging black holes; the team's best models suggest that at least one, if not both, of the ...
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...
To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...
Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...