Mergers of black holes are among the most energetic events in the Universe. As two black holes in close proximity collide, they combine to form a single, larger black hole. These events are detectable through the characteristic gravitational waves they produce, which propagate outwards at the speed of light.
LIGO-Virgo KAGRA is an international collaboration of scientists that utilize a network of gravitational wave detectors to study these highly-energetic events. The collaboration has observed 300 black hole mergers in its history. A pair of these energetic events observed in October and November 2024 stand out for unusual inherent spin behavior.
The first observed event, GW241011, occurred about 700 million…more
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