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An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...
At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...
The pair merged to create a single hole about 225 times the mass of the sun.
The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...
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 ...
Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...
Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...