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Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...
A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...
The Trump administration has called for shutting down either a Tri-Cities, WA, or Louisiana observatory that work in tandem.
A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current ...
At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.
The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...
The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...
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 Trump administration.