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India is building the third LIGO detector, thus completing the triad with the two existing US-based observatories.
A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...
Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.
The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.
Scientists have detected the most massive black hole merger spotted so far. The event is at the limits of the capabilities of ...
Ripples in space-time signalling the largest merger of two black holes ever seen challenge current understanding of the ...
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...
A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...
The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.
A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...