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Official Twitter of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. We detect gravitational waves! Email: questions@ligo.org
May 8, 2024 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
We have observed a diverse family of black holes using #GravitationalWaves

We now now they come in a range of sizes, but what are the biggest and smallest black holes we have discovered?

#BlackHoleWeek 1/🧵

📊: @NUCIERA Masses in the stellar graveyard. A plot showing the masses of black holes and neutron stars observed with gravitational waves and light. The points are arranged to look nice (they are not ordered along the horizontal axis) When two black holes merge, they form a bigger black hole. The mass of the bigger black hole will be around 95% of the mass of its two parent black holes. The remaining 5% is carried away as the energy in the gravitational waves

#BlackHoleWeek 2/🧵

🎬: @esa
Dec 31, 2019 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
The detection of #GravitationalWaves features in many lists of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the decade. Here's the @SmithsonianMag list...
smithsonianmag.com/science-nature… ...and here's @NatGeo ... nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-te…
Nov 3, 2018 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
@melizeche @Rainmaker1973 @ProfBrianCox Amazing question. There are perhaps 3 neat ways to think about it: @melizeche @Rainmaker1973 @ProfBrianCox 1. All the properties of a black hole scale with its mass: Big black holes are *identical* to small ones except scaled up. They are not like other objects where you could count the number of atoms or LEGO bricks they are made of