Many More Colliding Black Holes Foreseen in Future of Gravitational Wave Observatory (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Many More Colliding Black Holes Foreseen in Future of Gravitational Wave Observatory

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This artist's illustration depicts the merging black hole binary systems for GW150914 (left) and GW151226 (right). The black hole pairs are shown together in this illustration, but were actually detected at different times, and on different parts of the sky. The images have been scaled to show the difference in black hole masses. New research predicts that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory will detect gravitational waves generated by many more merging black holes in coming years.

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LIGO/A. Simonnet

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