An unexpected origin story for a lopsided black hole merger

Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - 10:40 in Astronomy & Space

A lopsided merger of two black holes may have an oddball origin story, according to a new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere. The merger was first detected on April 12, 2019 as a gravitational wave that arrived at the detectors of both LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), and its Italian counterpart, Virgo. […]

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