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The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.
Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...
Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...
To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...
What occurs when the universe plays a cosmic curveball, breaking down long-standing assumptions about how black holes form?
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...