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$Gravitational waves observed by Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) twin detectors were produced during the final fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes to produce a single, more massive spinning black hole. Image credit: T. Pyle / LIGO.$

May 13, 2026

Researchers have developed a new method to identify whether black hole mergers occurred inside dense clouds of dark…