[...] Since 2015, researchers have only been able to detect about 100 black hole mergers by spotting the waves they give off, even though it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of mergers every year. [...] So, researchers are looking to up their remarkably low hit rate. And they think they've found a way. According to a new paper out of the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy (SISSA), creating a constellation of interferometers -instruments that gather information from ways waves interfere with each other-might do the trick.
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