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LIGO detects more gravitational waves, from even more ancient and distant black hole collisions

  • Written by Sean McWilliams, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University
imageArtist's conception of two merging black holes, spinning in a nonaligned fashion.LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet), CC BY-ND

For the third time in a year and a half, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory has detected gravitational waves. Hypothesized by Einstein a century ago, the identification of these...

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