02 June 2017
A third success for LIGO as more gravitational waves detected
...direction misaligned with the overall orbital motion – a spin configuration favoured by some astrophysical formation scenarios of binary black holes,” Buonanno added. The longer distance that the gravitational waves have had to travel for this latest...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... surveys of very massive stars tell us that most of them are binaries and half of them interact severely during their lifetimes. We have seen binary stars and binary black holes merge in real time. With upcoming bigger and better surveys...
10 April 2020
A recently discovered stellar black hole could be the most massive yet, say astronomers
... massive black hole among the known black hole binaries in our Galaxy. Black hole binaries (BHBs), are systems consisting of a stellar mass black hole and a star. These are not to be confused with BBHs (binary black holes) which are two black holes...
12 February 2016
A scientific breakthrough as gravitational waves detected for the first time
... for physics: the direct detection of gravitational waves, the first detection of a binary black hole, and the most convincing evidence to date that nature’s black holes are the objects predicted by Einstein’s theory,” continued Vecchio. The detailed...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... the two objects (just a few times that of the Schwarzchild radius), is further proof that GW150914 is due to a binary black hole merger. Future research We have reached a new step in astrophysics with the very first detection of gravitational waves...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
... (BH) merger, thus marking the beginning of a new era in gravitational wave astronomy. "LIGO has just proved that binary black holes merge frequently throughout the universe, much more than many people expected," said Richard O'Shaughnessy, assistant...
