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Briefing: A 100-solar-mass black hole merger ripples spacetime, and may flash in gamma rays

Strategic angle: An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger discovery.

Editorial Staff · 2026-03-13 · 1 MIN READ

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories detected gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger.

The event may produce gamma-ray flashes in November 2024.

This discovery builds on previous findings from 2017.