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Skymaps_hires
August 13, 2019
LIGO Lab • Collage
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Building Up Black Hole Mass
September 2, 2020
LIGO Lab • Artwork
This artist's concept illustrates a hierarchical scheme for merging black holes. Scientists think that the two black holes that merged during the GW190521 event may have themselves formed from the earlier mergers of two smaller black hol...
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Still from a numerical relativity s...
September 2, 2020
LIGO Lab • Simulation
Still from a numerical relativity simulation for GW190521
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Heftiest Merger Seen Yet
September 2, 2020
LIGO Lab • Chart
This chart compares the GW190521 event to others witnessed by LIGO and Virgo.
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Building Up Black Hole Mass
September 2, 2020
LIGO Lab • Artwork
This artist's concept illustrates a hierarchical scheme for merging black holes. Scientists think that the two black holes that merged during the GW190521 event may have themselves formed from the earlier mergers of two smaller black hol...
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Visualization of GW190521
September 2, 2020
LIGO Lab • Simulation
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Stellar Graveyard, with GW190521 Hi...
September 2, 2020
LIGO Lab • Chart
A mass chart of objects detected through EM and GW observations, with GW190521 highlighted
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Artist's Rendition of a Mystery Obj...
June 23, 2020
LIGO Lab • Artwork
Artist's illustration of a mystery object in 'Mass Gap' found by LIGO and Virgo during the GW190814 event.
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Visualization of GW190814
June 23, 2020
LIGO Lab • Simulation
A still image from a visualization of the GW190814 event based on a simulation by the SXS collaboration.
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Mass Chart of Objects Detected by L...
June 23, 2020
LIGO Lab • Chart
Mass chart of objects detected by LIGO, with GW190814 highlighted.
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Visualization of GW190814
June 23, 2020
LIGO Lab • Simulation
A still image from a visualization of the GW190814 event based on a simulation by the SXS collaboration.
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Simulation of a black hole merger w...
April 20, 2020
LIGO Lab • Simulation
A still from a simulation of a black hole merger with asymmetric masses and orbital precession, consistent with GW190412.
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Simluation of a black hole merger w...
April 20, 2020
LIGO Lab • Simulation
A still from a simulation of a black hole merger with asymmetric masses and orbital precession, consistent with GW190412.
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GW190425
January 6, 2020
LIGO Lab • Artwork
Artist's rendition of a neutron star merger.
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An illustration of the underground ...
October 4, 2019
LIGO Lab • Artwork
An illustration of the underground KAGRA gravitational-wave detector
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An illustration of the underground ...
October 4, 2019
LIGO Lab • Artwork
An illustration of the underground KAGRA gravitational-wave detector
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S190426c Sky Map
May 2, 2019
LIGO Lab • Simulation
The S190426c candidate sky map
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S190425z Sky Map
May 2, 2019
Simulation
The S190425z candidate sky map
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Installation of new baffles in prep...
March 26, 2019
LIGO Lab • Photograph
Installation of new baffles in preparation for Advanced LIGO's third observing run.
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Installation of in-vacuum equipment...
March 26, 2019
LIGO Lab • Photograph
Installation of in-vacuum equipment as a part of the squeezed-light upgrade before Advanced LIGO's third observing run.
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Detector engineers install hardware...
March 26, 2019
LIGO Lab • Photograph
Detector engineers install hardware upgrades in preparation for Advanced LIGO's third observing run.
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Masses of detected LIGO/Virgo compa...
December 3, 2018
LIGO Lab •
Masses of detected LIGO/Virgo compact binaries
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LIGO/Virgo Binary-Black-Hole Orrery
December 3, 2018
LIGO Lab •
A still image of a visualization of the merging black holes that LIGO and Virgo have observed so far.
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Known black holes as of Nov 15
November 15, 2017

Masses of Black Holes detected by LIGO
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Cataclysmic Collision
October 16, 2017

Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars.
 
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