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The Trump administration has called for shutting down either a Tri-Cities, WA, or Louisiana observatory that work in tandem.
The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...
The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.
Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...
Two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, collided and merged into each other, in what is dubbed as the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research.
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...
Astronomers have detected the largest black hole merger ever, and it has challenged their understanding of such formations.
A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...
The proposed next generation of gravitational wave detectors will require hundreds of kilometers of ultrahigh vacuum beam ...