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Illustration of the first gravitati...
February 11, 2016
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Illustration of the first gravitational wave event observed by LIGO
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Get to Know GW230529
April 5, 2024
LIGO Lab • Artwork
GW230529 fact sheet
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Filling the Mass Gap: GW230529
April 5, 2024
LIGO Lab • Artwork
Compact binary merger GW230529 resides in the Mass Gap
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Artistic image inspired by a BHNS m...
June 29, 2021
LIGO Lab • Artwork
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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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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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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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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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Dancing Duo of Black Holes
June 1, 2017
Artwork
Dancing Duo of Black Holes
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Before the Merge: Spiraling Black H...
June 1, 2017
Artwork
Before the Merge: Spiraling Black Holes
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Spiral Dance of Black Holes
June 15, 2016
LIGO Lab • Artwork
An illustration showing the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each other.
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Massive Bodies Warp Space-Time
February 11, 2016
LIGO Lab • Artwork
How our sun and Earth warp space and time, or spacetime, is represented here with a green grid. As Albert Einstein demonstrated in his theory of general relativity, the gravity of massive bodies warps the fabric of space and time—and tho...
 
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