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The most massive black hole merger detected
By Jess McIver on September 3, 2020
An international team of researchers, including scientists in the UBC LIGO group, has detected a signal from the most massive black hole merger yet observed. The discovery, outlined in papers published today in Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal, raises a slew of new questions about the nature of black-hole formation, and upends previously […]