Record-breaking gravitational wave recorded with roughly three times the clarity of the groundbreaking 2015 discovery,
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/record-breaking-gravitational-wave-puts-einsteins-relativity-to-its-toughest-test-yet-and-proves-him-right-again
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> Because the recently detected signal was so clear, Mitman and his colleagues could zoom in on a fleeting stage after the merger known as the “ringdown.” During this phase, the newly formed black hole briefly vibrates — much like a struck bell — emitting gravitational waves in distinct patterns, or “tones,” that encode key properties of the black hole, including its mass and spin.
That’s all there really is here. Higher resolution allows astronomers to see more of the phenomena predicted by theory.
That is enough.
I tought 2 black holes merging would be a bit more… violent…
The link to the story since new reddit won’t show it for some
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/record-breaking-gravitational-wave-puts-einsteins-relativity-to-its-toughest-test-yet-and-proves-him-right-again
Paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/6c61-fm1n
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW250114
Whoa, the simulation for this is sick. Never seen such a wobble in the extreme parts of the lensing like that. Really cool how their silhouettes merge together this time too, you can see each black hole right next to the main silhouette of the other since they are warping space so hard in those regions.