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Gravitational waves
Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime from colliding black holes and neutron stars, first detected in 2015. New signals from LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA, pulsar timing arrays and the future LISA space observatory.
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Triple star systems explain black-hole merger mass peak
Micro-tidal star disruptions outnumber black hole mergers
Tightest Known Binary Black Hole Found in NGC 5044
Why SN 2023ixf Likely Formed a Neutron Star, Not a Black Hole
BHEX Could Resolve Shadows of Dozens of Black Holes
Supernovae Create a "Fog" for the LISA Detector
Where the Magnetic Field for Star-Shredding Jets Comes From
Two Spheres in Orbit Will Hunt Microhertz Gravitational Waves
IceCube searched for neutrinos from O4a gravitational waves
"Dark Sirens" — How Gravitational Waves Measure the Expansion of the Universe