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Monster black hole merger is biggest ever seen
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK Collaboration, a wider network of gravitational-wave detectors that encompasses LIGO, Virgo in Italy and KAGRA in Japan. It’s “about 50% more than the previous record holder”, he says.
Merger of two massive black holes is one for the record books
To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected mergers involved either two black holes or two neutron stars. In 2021, LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA confirmed the detection of two separate "mixed" mergers between black holes and neutron stars.
At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.
A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed how two ...
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...
Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...
The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...
It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...
A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...
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Gravitational waves reveal most massive black hole merger ever detected — one 'forbidden' by current modelsThe Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...
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Scientists detect most massive black hole merger ever — and it birthed a monster 225 times as massive as the sunNew gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...
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