Scientists can now study the event horizons of black holes
A LONG TIME ago, in a galaxy far, far away—somewhere in the general direction of the constellation of Leo—two black holes crashed together and merged. About 1.3bn years later, on January 14th 2025, a blip appeared in the detectors at the Laser Interferometry Gravitational Observatory (LIGO), an instrument based in Louisiana and Washington state.
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