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Was GW190521 the result of eccentric, non-aligned black holes merging?

New analysis of a big merger yields strange results.
By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago
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There’s gold in them thar colliding neutron stars

Grab your pickaxe and space ship!
By Cassidy Ward | 
1 year ago
Liz Black Hole

Gargantuan black holes could be growing and growing as the universe expands

Unexpectedly huge black holes might have gotten gargantuan from the universe expanding.
By Elizabeth Rayne | 
1 year ago
Artwork depicting two black holes orbiting each other. Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)

The Universe is shaking: 39 new gravitational wave events added to the list

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
Artwork depicting a binary black hole system, the precursor to a merger. Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav).

The biggest black hole merger ever detected rocked the Universe and left behind a mystery

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
Artwork depicting the merger of a neutron star (right) with a black hole (left). Credit: Carl Knox (OzGrav)

A big black hole just ate a much smaller black hole. Or a neutron star. Maybe.

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
Merging black holes art

Two black holes merged into one, singing in tune the whole time

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
Artwork showing a newly-formed black hole with material swirling around it, and jets of energy and matter blasting away from its poles. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

*FOUR* new black hole mergers have been found blasting out gravitational waves!

By Phil Plait | 
4 years ago
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Last year, two merging neutron stars rocked astronomy. Now it looks like they left behind a black hole.

By Phil Plait | 
4 years ago
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Ho hum, just another black hole merger that blasted out soul-crushing amounts of energy and shook the fabric of reality

By Phil Plait | 
5 years ago
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