Australian Sky & Telescope

Gravitational-wave detection count reaches 90

THE VAST team associated with three gravitational-wave projects has unveiled the results from the latest ‘observing run’. The collaboration had already published two key detections from that run, the first-ever smash-ups of black holes with neutron stars. But this long-awaited third catalogue adds significantly to researchers’ full tally, raising the total number of gravitational-wave events to 90.

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