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October’s Night Sky Notes: Let’s Go, LIGO!  NASA Science (.gov) Black hole discovery confirms Einstein and Hawking were right  ScienceDaily Einstein Was Right Again: Ripples in Space-Time Confirm Century-Old Theory  SciTechDaily 09-26-25 *INTERVIEW* Merging Black Holes with CU Physics Professor Paul Beale – The Ross Kaminsky Show  iHeart A Black Hole Merger’s “Kick” Was Measured For The First Time  Universe Today Source link

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LIGO Detects Black Hole Smashup So Extreme It’s Bending Einstein’s Rules  SciTechDaily Heaviest Black Hole Merger Flouts a Forbidden Gap  American Physical Society Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date  CNN Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.  Popular Mechanics Physicists detect largest-ever merger of 2 black holes equal in size to 240 suns  USA Today Source …

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a final black hole approximately 225 times the mass of our Sun. The signal, designated GW231123, was detected during the fourth observing run of the LVK network on …