Black Holes with Known Masses
LIGO has already significantly increased the number of black holes with known masses. The observatory has definitively detected two sets of black hole mergers (bright blue). For each event, LIGO determined the individual masses of the black holes before they merged, as well as the mass of the black hole produced by the merger. The black holes shown with a dotted border represent a LIGO candidate event that was too weak to be conclusively claimed as a detection.
- JPG
- Date
- June 15, 2016
- Location
- LIGO Lab
- ID
- ligo20160615e
- Type
- Chart
- Credit
- Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab