Home Binary Merger Observations and Numerical Relativity News News from the “Binary Merger Observations and Numerical Relativity” group News LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date July 14, 2025 Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models more Towards identifying exotic compact object binaries in gravitational-wave data June 16, 2025 A Hannover-Cardiff research team has developed a new, generic, compactness-based framework for distinguishing between signals from black hole mergers and those from exotic compact objects. more Towards a deeper understanding of black hole origins April 02, 2025 Research team studies the impact of remnant kicks on spin distributions of black holes from hierarchical mergers more New discoveries on the horizon - gravitational-wave observatories have already observed 200 detection candidates March 20, 2025 Researchers at the AEI contributed to this success. more Binary black hole mergers: What causes the final kick? December 11, 2024 Decoding the physics of asymmetric gravitational-wave radiation and its connection to black-hole kicks more Show more