New Gravitational Wave Catalog Reveals Black Holes of ‘All Shapes and Sizes’

November 8, 2021 • by Marc Airhart

In a paper published Nov. 7th on the preprint server ArXiv, the team has detected a further 35 gravitational wave events since the last catalog release in October 2020, bringing to 90 the total number of observed events since gravitational-wave observations began.

Chart showing masses of more than 100 black holes and neutron stars detected by gravitational waves

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