A black hole hunting machine New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem Physicists spliced merger's gravitational signal into isolated frequencies to determine surface area

"The clearest black hole merger signal yet … offers new insights into these mysterious objects."

@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social writes in @arstechnica.com about the discovery of #GW250114

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A cartoon showing the area of the two progenitor black holes inferred from the inspiral part of the signal is less than the area of the final black hole inferred from the ringdown part of the signal. Credit: L. Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation

"Landmark Black Hole Test Marks Decade of Gravitational-Wave Discoveries"

Chiara Mingarelli writes for APS Physics Magazine about #GW250114 physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

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Gizmondo headline "LIGO’s Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory" above an artistic image of a binary black hole merger in a soothing blue by Maggie Chiang for Simons Foundation

"Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace"

@gayoung.bsky.social writes in @gizmodo.com about #GW250114

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A comparison of GW250114 with our first detection GW150914. The stretching of space in the new black hole merger (top) is similar to that in the first one ever spotted (bottom), but because of reductions in the noise in the detectors, the signal stands out far more clearly. Graphic by C. Bickel/Science. Data from us

"Strongest black hole collision yet confirms theories of Einstein, Hawking"

Adrian Cho of @science.org writes about our discovery of #GW250114

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