Astronomers using the twin LIGO detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector located near Pisa, Italy, have detected gravitational waves from the most massive binary black hole merger ever discovered. The two spinning black holes merged when the Universe was only about 7 billion years old, which is roughly half its present age, and formed a larger black hole weighing a whopping 142 times the mass of the Sun — a so-called intermediate-mass black hole.
READ MORELt. Col. Robert Friend was in charge of Project Blue Book, the military’s famous UFO study.
READ MOREA curious piece of footage out of New Jersey shows a puzzling trio of mysterious lights hovering in the night sky and some observers suspect that they belonged to a triangular UFO.
READ MOREShipworms have long been a menace to humankind, sinking ships, undermining piers, and even eating their way through Dutch dikes in the mid-1700s. Now, researchers have found the first shipworm that eschews wood for a very different diet: rock.
READ MOREPeacock spiders keep dancing their way into our hearts. They’re tiny, they’re colourful, they’re fluffy and they have killer moves.
READ MOREAirline pilots see plenty of weird things while flying passengers from one place to another, but most of it occurs in the plane’s cabin.
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