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"Exceptional tests of general relativity with GW250114" by @LIGO - Gravitational Wave #GW250114 detected over a year ago provided the clearest (best signal to noise) data yet on a black hole merger. The year that it took for #LIGO, Virgo & KAGRA to gather the data and write a peer-reviewed paper now yields results. It shows EVERY test that could be applied to Einstein's Relativity passed. These conditions were only theoretical in his time. https://ligo.org/exceptional-tests-of-general-relativity-with-gw250114/ #astronomy #physics #science

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MPI for Gravitational Physics Jan 29

Read more in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Science Summary about this paper: https://ligo.org/science-summaries/GW250114_TGR/

#GW250114 #Relativity #Science

Black hole spectroscopy and tests of general relativity with GW250114 – LSC – LIGO Scientific Collaboration

LIGO Jan 14

Happy birthday to #GW250114 our loudest detection to date!

In this video, Dr Becky Smethurst explains how we used the signal to test one of Hawking's fundamental ideas about black holes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fLOgS7F5Bo

#GravitationalWaves #Astrodon #Physics

FINALLY: evidence for Hawking's AREA THEOREM of black holes

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LIGO Sep 25, 2025

Yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day #APOD featured #GW250114! This artwork imagines the ultimate front-row seat as two black holes spiral together on their way toward producing the strongest gravitational-wave signal we've detected so far

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250924.html

🎨A Simonnet

#Astrodon

Khurram Wadee ✅Sep 24, 2025

#GW250114: #Rotating #BlackHoles #Collide
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250924.html

#APOD

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LIGO Sep 15, 2025

Data for #GW250114, like all our detections, are available from our Open Science Center

https://doi.org/10.7935/1g4j-2028

If you would like to know more about our open data, our paper explains: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079

#OpenScience #OpenData

LIGO Sep 15, 2025

The New York Times shares celebrations of our 10 year anniversary, and the challenges ahead, with memories of Rai Weiss and our clearest detection #GW250114

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/science/gravitational-waves-ligo-black-holes.html by Dennis Overbye

#GW10Years #Astrodon

LIGO Sep 12, 2025

"This detection will quickly 'become one of my favourites', says David Reitze, executive director of the LIGO laboratory"

Jenna Ahart reviews some of our greatest discoveries, including the new #GW250114 in @NatureNewsteam

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02872-5

#GW10Years #Astrodon

LIGO Sep 12, 2025

Technological advances enable us to study our Universe in greater detail. Just as better telescopes give us clearer images, better gravitational-wave detectors enable clearer measurements of binary black holes.

#GW250114 is a similar signal to GW150914, but our detectors are much better!

#GW10Years #Astrodon