{"683467":{"#nid":"683467","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"LIGO Detects Most Massive Binary Black Hole To Date","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)\u0027s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an extremely unusual binary black hole merger - a phenomenon that occurs when two black holes are pulled into each other\u0027s orbit and combine. \u0022The Georgia Tech team first reconstructed the signal in a model-agnostic way,\u0022 Millhouse adds. \u0022We then compared those reconstructions to a model that uses Einstein\u0027s equations of general relativity, and both reconstructions looked very similar, which helped confirm that this highly unusual phenomenon was a genuine detection.\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36757","created_gmt":"2025-08-01 15:29:04","changed_gmt":"2025-08-01 15:29:04","author":"ychernet3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Mirage","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\/ligo-detects-most-massive-binary-black-hole-to-1497840\/","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"660370","name":"Space"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}