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  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - GW250114: Rotating Black Holes Collide

    09/24/2025 1:25:50 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 10 replies
    NASA ^ | 24 Sep, 2025 | Illustration Credit: Aurore Simonnet (SSU/EdEon), LVK, URI; LIGO Collaboration
    Explanation: It was the strongest gravitational wave signal yet measured -- what did it show? GW250114 was detected by both arms of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in Washington and Louisiana USA earlier this year. Analysis showed that the event was created when two black holes, each of mass around 33 times the mass of the Sun, coalesced into one larger black hole with a mass of around 63 solar masses. Even though the event happened about a billion light years away, the signal was so strong that the spin of all black holes, as well as initial ringing...