black hole, Gravitational Wave Detectors
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Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely forged by earlier smash-ups fused into a 225-solar-mass titan, GW231123. The record-setting blast strains both the sensitivity of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA and the boundaries of stellar-evolution theory,
Europe’s Virgo detector picks up its first gravitational wave and nails down locale. by Alan Boyle on September 27, 2017 at 10:48 am September 27, 2017 at 1:25 pm.