The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...
In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...
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Astronomers detect pair of unique black hole mergers
In the fall of 2024, two separate pairs of stellar mass black holes, hundreds of millions of light-years away, spiraled into ...
On May 24, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) began an 18-month campaign to detect the most distant collisions between black holes and neutron stars ever ...
After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S. have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves—tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe. Unlike light ...
Scientists on the lookout for subtle disturbances in the fabric of space-time have detected the signal from a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that lie some 3 billion light-years away, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. One of the greatest scientific achievements in all of human history was ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. One of the most understated frontiers in all of physics is the quest ...
About 1.4 billion years ago, the universe gave scientists a Christmas present. Two black holes spiraled toward one another, approaching closer and closer until they finally collided. Ripples in ...
An artist’s conception shows gravitational waves emanating like ripples in space time as two black holes approach each other in their orbits. (Credit: T. Pyle / LIGO) It looks as if gravitational-wave ...
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