LIGO detects third black-hole collision — and it’s not quite like the others

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Scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, have detected the signal from a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that lie 3 billion light-years away – much farther than the previous two discoveries. The findings, described in a paper accepted to Physical Review Letters, cement the idea that gravitational-wave astronomy – a whole […]

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June 2, 2017 at 03:26AM