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Lensing Model Recasts LIGO’s Massive Black‑Hole Merger as an Optical Illusion

The new analysis shows gravitational lensing can lower the event’s inferred mass and remove the need for exotic formation scenarios.

New Method Predicts How 'Hair' Would Alter Black Hole Ringdown

Researchers Isolate Direct Wave From GW250114 and Probe Black Hole Horizon

LVK Releases GWTC-5.0 Catalog Expanding Gravitational-Wave Census to 390 Events

Gravitational-Wave Study Says the Biggest Black Holes Grow Through Repeat Mergers

Twin Black-Hole Mergers Display Extreme Spins, Strengthen Einstein’s Theory, and Point to Second-Generation Origins

Astronomers Measure First Black-Hole Recoil, Tracing Newborn’s 3D Flight From 2019 Merger

LVK Confirms Record-Breaking 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger

Record-Breaking 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger Challenges Formation Models