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Press Statement 17-010

NSF statement on latest LIGO-Virgo detection of binary black hole merger

Jim Ulvestad, NSF acting assistant director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, issues statement on detection of two 'light' black holes merging

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Black holes detected

This graphic shows the masses for black holes detected through gravitational-wave observations (blue).

Credit: LSC/LIGO/Caltech/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)


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