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Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.
A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...
The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...
JWST finds unusual black hole in the center of the Infinity Galaxy: 'How can we make sense of this?'
"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...
Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.
Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...
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First Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detector Begins ConstructionL ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...
This artist's concept illustrates a hierarchical scheme for merging black holes. Credit LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) In a breathtaking leap for astrophysics, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) ...
A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created ...
The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.
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