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The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.
New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...
As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...
A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics models ...
A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...
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 ...
Scientists have detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves, using the US ...
The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.
A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current astrophysical models. The clash formed a 225-solar-mass monster, possibly made ...
Astrophysicists have analyzed two merging black holes; the team's best models suggest that at least one, if not both, of the black holes shouldn't exist.