Monday, March 23, 2026

Black Hole Mergers Test the Limits of General Relativity

Discoveries made by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network since LIGO's first detection of gravitational waves emanating from pairs of colliding black holes. Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC)

We can now use the gravitational waves of black holes to test general relativity and look for evidence of alternative theories of gravity.



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