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Manitoba researchers part of team working to unravel mystery of largest black hole merger ever detected
A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...
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What Happens to Science When Black Holes Break the Rules?
This is the most massive black hole binary we’ve observed through gravitational waves, and it presents a real challenge to ...
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Two monster black holes just collided — it’s so massive, it shouldn’t exist
Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...
WA observatory in Hanford helps make stunning black hole discovery
The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...
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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 ...
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LIGO Detects Most Massive Binary Black Hole To Date
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...
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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 ...
What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
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Scientists warn: Two black holes set to collide, as tiny versions pass through our homes
Scientists have made a terrifying discovery: two black holes are on a collision course, set to merge into a massive hole that ...