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What happens at the edge of a black hole? Astronomers may be close to finding out

There is no sound in space, but black holes can still sing. When two black holes collide, their…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/au/765378/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/557572/ What happens at the edge of a black hole? Astronomers may be close to finding out #BlackHoleMerger #BlackHoles #DirectWave #Éire #EventHorizon #GravitationalWaves #gravity #IE #Ireland #KaterinaChatziioannou #Science #Space

Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe

For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/609100/

Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe

For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #blackholemerger #BlackHoles #gravitationalwave #LIGO #Model #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/633955/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/455159/ Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe #Astronomy #BlackHoleMerger #BlackHoles #cosmology #Éire #ExoticCompactObjects #GravitationalWaves #GW190521 #IE #IntermediateMassBlackHole #Ireland #LIGO #Physics #QuantumGravity #Research #Science #SpaceNews #Spacetime #Virgo #Wormhole #WormholeTheory

https://www.europesays.com/uk/920310/ Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe #Astronomy #BlackHoleMerger #BlackHoles #Cosmology #ExoticCompactObjects #GravitationalWaves #GW190521 #IntermediateMassBlackHole #LIGO #Physics #QuantumGravity #Research #Science #SpaceNews #spacetime #UK #UnitedKingdom #Virgo #wormhole #WormholeTheory

https://www.europesays.com/ie/454975/ Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe #BlackHoleMerger #BlackHoles #Éire #GravitationalWave #IE #Ireland #LIGO #model #Science #Space

Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe

For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Astronomy #AU #Australia #blackholemerger #BlackHoles #Cosmology #exoticcompactobjects #Gravitationalwaves #GW190521 #Intermediate-massblackhole #LIGO #QuantumGravity #research #SpaceNews #Spacetime #Virgo #Wormhole #wormholetheory
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/630962/

Caught in the Web: #Visualization of a #BlackHoleMerger in the #TarantulaNebula
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260403.html

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https://www.europesays.com/ie/385206/ Black hole merger may have triggered gamma-ray burst #BlackHole #BlackHoleMerger #BlackHoles #CosmicSurprise #Éire #IE #Ireland #Science #Space

“No One Has Considered These Systems the Way We Did”: The Magnetic Power that Created ‘Impossible’ Black Holes

In 2023, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration detected gravitational waves from the largest black hole merger ever recorded, in…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/au/346970/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/446720/ Unusual Gravitational Wave May Be Sign of Wormhole Linking Universes #BlackHole #BlackHoleMerger #GravitationalWave #Physics #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom

Unusual Gravitational Wave May Be Sign of Wormhole Linking Universes

In 2019, LIGO and Virgo recorded something truly bizarre – a gravitational wave event less than a tenth…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/176455/

More on the 10th Anniversary of Gravitational Waves

https://bfschutz.com/2025/09/14/10-years-of-gw-astronomy-satisfaction-coupled-with-concerns/?page_id=208

Further to my earlier post, I refer you to this much more detailed article by someone actually involved in the LIGO experiment, former Cardiff colleague Bernard Schutz..

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A Decade of Gravitational Waves

This is just a quick post to mark the fact that it is now ten years to the day since the first detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO. The acronym LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, by the way. It wasn’t until February 11th 2016 that the result was announced at a press conference (which I blogged about here), but the signal itself arrived on 14th September 2015, exactly a decade ago; the name given to the event was GW150914.

Here are the plots for that first one:

That first signal corresponded to the coalescence of two black holes, of masses 29 and 36 times the mass of the Sun and produced a large response in the detectors very soon after Advanced LIGO was switched on. There’s synchronicity for you! The LIGO collaboration have done wondrous things getting their sensitivity down to such a level that they can measure such a tiny effect, but there still has to be an event producing a signal to measure. Collisions of two such massive black holes are probably extremely rare so it’s a bit of good fortune that one happened just at the right time. Actually it was during an engineering test.

There have been many subsequent detections and even more candidates waiting to be confirmed- here’s a full list. The official LIGO site states there are 90 confirmed detections, the 4th observational run (O4) (which is due to end in November 2025) has already found 200 candidates. The latest compilation of gravitational-wave transient sources can be found here.

Most of the detections have been binary black hole mergers, but I particularly remember the excitement in 2017 surrounding the first merger of a neutron star with a black hole. It was fun that rumours started to spread via this blog as people outside the LIGO/transient source community used a comments thread here to share information of what various telescopes were looking at. That was in August 2017, just over 8 years ago.

Anyway, here’s to the next decade. Assuming NSF does not follow Trump’s plan to slash the LIGO budget.

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M5.6 flare from Active Region 14046 - April 1, 2025 - No foolin'!

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⏩ 5 new pictures and 5 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=44&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250528183052