"The clearest black hole merger signal yet, recorded by LIGO in January 2025, offers new insights into these mysterious objects."

@JenLucPiquant writes in @arstechnica about the discovery of #GW250114

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/new-black-hole-merger-bolsters-hawking-area-theorem/

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

Chiara Mingarelli writes for APS Physics Magazine about #GW250114 https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/160

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"LIGO’s Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory. Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace"

Gayoung Lee writes in Gizmodo about #GW250114

https://gizmodo.com/ligos-sharpest-detection-yet-confirms-famous-stephen-hawking-theory-2000656839

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

Adrian Cho of Science writes about our discovery of #GW250114

https://www.science.org/content/article/strongest-black-hole-collision-yet-confirms-theories-einstein-hawking

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Tests of general relativity and the nature of black hole with #GW250114 is out now

GW250114 is so loud, it sometimes provides tighter constraints than all of the signals in #GWTC4 combined

Learn about all the details in our science summary https://ligo.org/science-summaries/GW250114_TGR/

📔: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08099

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