LIGO catches a 225-solar-mass black-hole smash-up
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A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black holes smashing into each other.
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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, described the shock running through astrophysics circles following the observation of GW231123 a gravitational wave event that’s turned black hole creation theories on their head.
Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF)
A team of scientists led by expert Raúl Jiménez, ICREA researcher at the University of Barcelona's Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB), in collaboration with the University of Padua (Italy), has presented a revolutionary theory about the origins of the universe.
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