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Highly Eccentric Black Hole Merger Confirmed for First Time

For the first time, scientists believe they have detected a black hole merger of two black holes with eccentric orbits. According to a paper published in Nature Astronomy by researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation and the University of Florida, this can help explain how some of the black hole mergers detected by LIGO ...

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Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide.