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Black Hole Mergers

Crystal-Clear GW250114 Validates Hawking’s Area Law, Confirms Kerr-Like Remnant

A decade of sensitivity gains turned black-hole mergers into laboratories for precision tests of general relativity.

Clearest Gravitational-Wave Signal Lets LIGO Confirm Hawking's Area Law and Kerr Black Holes

LVK Confirms Record-Breaking 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger

Record-Breaking 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger Challenges Formation Models

New Model Proposes Explanation for Missing Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter

Mystery Object Discovered in Milky Way Challenges Astronomical Boundaries