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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, its twin detectors based in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, made the first ever detection of gravitational waves.

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Gravitational Wave Detected From Largest Black Hole Merger Yet: "It Presents A Real Challenge To Our Understanding Of Black Hole Formation"

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far observed merging. The result is larger than theoretical models allow through straight-forward means,

Phys.org on MSN · 22h

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a final black hole approximately 225 times the mass of our sun.

Gravitational Waves Unveil Record-Breaking Black Hole Merger, Challenging Existing Models

The most massive gravitationally detected black hole merger to date has been observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration.

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Black Hole or Vampire Star?

In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

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What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

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Astronomers observe the biggest booms since the Big Bang

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

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Scientists Look To Black Holes To Study The Universe. But Phone And Wi-Fi Satellites Are Blocking The View

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

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