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Black Holes Studied as a Population May 7, 2021• Physics 14, 67 The latest dataset from gravitational-wave observatories has enough events to allow researchers to study properties of the whole population of black holes. F. Elavsky and A. Geller/Northwestern Univ./LIGO-Virgo Collaboration Black holes (blue), neutron stars (orange), and compact objects of uncertain nature (gray) detected via gravitational waves through September 2019. Each binary merger involves three compact objects: the two coalescing objects and the final remnant. The vertical scale is in solar masses.Black holes ...

A New Era of Black Holes Is Here Thomas Lewton © MARK GARLICK / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / GETTY When the first black-hole collision was detected in 2015, it was a watershed moment in the history of astronomy. Using gravitational waves, astronomers were observing the universe in an entirely new way. But this first event didn’t revolutionize our understanding of black holes—nor could it. This collision would be the first of many, astronomers knew, and only with that bounty would answers come. “The first discovery was the thrill of our lives,” says Vicky Kalogera, an astr...

The Atlantic Astronomers have discovered a black-hole treasure trove that is changing our view of the cosmos. MARK GARLICK / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / GETTY When the first black-hole collision was detected in 2015, it was a watershed moment in the history of astronomy. Using gravitational waves, astronomers were observing the universe in an entirely new way. But this first event didn’t revolutionize our understanding of black holes—nor could it. This collision would be the first of many, astronomers knew, and only with that bounty would answers come. “The first discovery was the thrill of...

One black hole is nice, but astrophysicists can do a lot more science with 50 of them.

Illustration by Sandbox Studio, Chicago with Corinne Mucha Physics at tiniest scale could explain ‘impossible’ black holes 12/15/20 By Scott Hershberger Until recently, scientists had never detected black holes in the “mass gap”—now, particle physicists are exploring ideas beyond the Standard Model that could explain them. On May 21, 2019, a ripple in spacetime alerted scientists to what they thought was an impossible event: a collision between two black holes that should not have existed.  The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories had witnessed over a dozen black-hole c...