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For the First Time, Scientists Have Detected Tones of a Newborn Black Hole

Suppose Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity holds. In that case, a black hole, born from the cosmically quaking collisions of two massive black holes, should itself “ring” in the aftermath, producing gravitational waves much like a struck bell reverberating sound waves. Einstein predicted that these gravitational waves’ particular pitch and decay should be a ...

Troy Oakes

A newly formed black hole's gravitational waves.