LIGO Observatories Detect Most Massive Black Hole Merger in History
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Summary
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves, resulting in a final black hole 225 times the mass of the Sun. The signal, GW231123, was detected during the fourth observing run of the LVK network on November 23, 2023.
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LIGO made history in 2015 when it made the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time.
Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models
