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A new gravitational-wave catalogue, GWTC-5, reports an additional 161 black hole mergers, bringing the total to 390 detections.
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United States, Italy, Japan, Glasgow
Who
Scientists at the University of Glasgow’s Institute for Gravitational Research, LIGO observatories, Virgo detector, KAGRA detector, Dr. Daniel Williams, Alex Papadopoulos, Dr. John Veitch, Storm Colloms
What
A new gravitational-wave catalogue, GWTC-5, reports an additional 161 black hole mergers, bringing the total to 390 detections.
When
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:57:02 GMT · 3h 35m ago
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United States, Italy, Japan, Glasgow ·
Why
The new catalogue includes 161 newly identified signals from colliding black holes detected between April 2024 and January 2025.
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This significant increase in gravitational wave detections provides a deeper understanding of black hole populations and helps refine measurements of the Universe's expansion rate, potentially leading to new cosmological insights.
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