Gravitational-wave detections double with new catalog
CIERA Astrophysics
EVANSTON, Ill. — An international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected 128 new gravitational-wave candidates — more than doubling the size of the current catalog.
Within the new dataset, the more unusual signals include the heaviest black hole binary detected to date, a binary where both black holes have exceptionally high spins (rotating at nearly 40% the speed of light) and an unusually lopsided pair of black holes, with one object twice as...