Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine
September 10, 2025
September 10, 2025
PASADENA, California, Sept. 10 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news:
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Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine
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On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to reach us at the speed of light--but it was not made of light. It was a different kind of s . . .
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Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine
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On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to reach us at the speed of light--but it was not made of light. It was a different kind of s . . .