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Space breakthrough: Louisiana observatory detects biggest black hole merger ever observed

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is approximately 225 times the mass of the sun.

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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 ever. It could lead to evidence of an extremely rare type of black hole.

Space.com on MSN · 1d

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.

Science Daily6h

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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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 ...

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Can Gravitational Waves Rewrite the Rules of Black Hole Formation?

Black holes this massive are forbidden through standard stellar evolution models.” And with those words, Cardiff University’s Mark Hannam, a member of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, ...

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