Cracking! Some binary black holes can roll around each other in egg-shaped orbits
Black Hole Week comes to a close today (May 10), and what better way to mark the occasion than with some ‘extraordinary egg’ science. Using gravitational wave measurements by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), based in the US, and the Virgo and KAGRA detectors, based in Italy and Japan respectively, scientists have discovered that … Read more