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Astronomers Achieve Historic First: Full Black Hole Recoil Measurement


The GW190412 merger revealed a black-hole recoil moving faster than 50 km/s. Gravitational waves allowed its 3D motion to be reconstructed. A research group led by the Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE) at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) has, for the first time,

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