Daniel CleryFar away in the depths of space, two black holes spiral toward each other and merge. Powerful gravitational waves from that dance of death race across the cosmos until their ripples reach three giant detectors on Earth: two with the U.S.-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and Europe’s Virgo detector in Italy.The detectors have sensed dozens of such cataclysms over the past 5 years, but the one on 21 May 2019 was different.

Not only was it the most powerful and distant merger ever seen, but the resulting black hole also belongs to class of long-sought middleweight black holes, members of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration report today in two new studies.

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Name that K-9: Flagler County Sheriff’s Office asks for help naming newest deputy

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COVID reaches community spread phase in Shimla: Health official

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American Airlines allows employees to wear Black Lives Matter pins on uniforms

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UBC researchers detect massive black hole collision

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Jacob Blake speaks for first time since police shooting

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More than 200 airlifted to safety from massive Central California wildfire

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Universities find sewage water holds real promise as early detection system for COVID-19

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Jacob Blake shares message from hospital bed: 'A lot more life to live out there'

Kenosha - Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot by Kenosha police, shared a message from his hospital bed on Saturday."Every 24 hours, it's pain, it's nothing but pain. It hurts to breathe, it hurts to sleep, it hurts to move from side to side, it hurts to eat," Blake said.PLEASE NOTE, VIDEO IN THIS TWEET CONTAINS SWEAR WORDS.Blake was shot seven times in the back by police in late August.

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White GWU history professor admits she lied about being Black

WASHINGTON (FOX NEWS) - A George Washington University professor admitted in a Thursday blog post that she has for years been falsely claiming to be Black, when she is in fact white and Jewish.Jessica A. Krug, who teaches Black history at GWU, made the startling admission in a blog post on Medium titled, “The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies.”Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and Weather“To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then U.S.

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UBC researchers help detect massive black hole collision

UBC researchers have helped detect a signal from what may be the most massive black hole merger ever seen.

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