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Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date
Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...
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Two monster black holes just collided — it’s so massive, it shouldn’t exist
Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...
Scientists record a black hole collision they weren’t sure was possible
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
Largest-ever merger of black holes forms one 225 times the mass of the sun, astronomers say
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Gravitational shockwave: LIGO catches a 225-solar-mass black-hole smash-up
Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...
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LIGO has spotted the most massive black hole collision ever detected
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 models
The 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 sun
New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...