Scientists have released a new gravitational-wave catalogue reporting 161 additional black hole mergers, lifting the total number of detected mergers to 390.
Listening to spacetime
Gravitational-wave detectors sense ripples in spacetime produced when massive objects such as black holes spiral together and collide. Each detection adds to a growing census of these cataclysmic events.
Building a population
With hundreds of mergers now catalogued, astronomers can better study how black holes form, how massive they are, and how often they collide — insights that sharpen our understanding of the universe's most extreme objects.
Source: ScienceDaily.