@maxisi

Gravitational-wave Astronomer. Assistant Professor @Columbia | Associate Research Scientist @SimonsFdn. (Tweets English & Español)

 New York, NY
maxisi.github.io
Joined July 2009
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Meet GW250114, a landmark detection of gravitational waves that gives us an unprecedented view of the nature of black holes and the nature of space and time, as predicted by Einstein, Hawking and many others. journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac…

GW250114: Testing Hawking's Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes

Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has shown Hawking's area law to hold with high credibility.

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Caltech@Caltech10 Oct 2025
A collaboration between physicists at Caltech and other institutions has released an expanded and refined catalog of simulations of black hole mergers. caltech.edu/about/news/catal…

Catalog of Simulations of Black Hole Collisions Expands

A collaboration between physicists at Caltech and other institutions has released an expanded and refined catalog of simulations of black hole mergers.

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Come see Kip Thorne’s talk Monday afternoon at @Yale !
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Maximiliano Isi@maxisi10 Sep 2025
Hoy presentamos la señal más clara de una colisión de agujeros negros. Las ondas gravitacionales detectadas por @LIGO nos permiten poner a prueba nuestro entendimiento de los agujeros negros y el espacio-tiempo curvo, según Einstein y Hawking. Solo es posible gracias a la mejora de nuestros instrumentos en los 10 años desde nuestra primera detección! Imagen: L. Reading-Ikkanda/M. Isi/Simons Foundation #GW2501014 #OndasGravitacionales #Einstein #Hawking #LIGO
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One month left to apply for a postdoc position at #FlatironCCA! Applications due 10/31: apply.interfolio.com/173403 #science #astrophysics
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Thanks to improved technology and a bit of luck, a newly detected black hole merger is providing the clearest evidence yet of how black holes work: simonsfoundation.org/2025/09… #science #astrophysics
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Almost 10 years after the first detection of gravitational waves, physicists have announced the strongest such signal yet. Produced when two black holes in a distant galaxy spiraled into each other, the merger enabled researchers to test Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, in new ways. In particular, analysis of the event confirmed a theorem derived by Stephen Hawking that a black hole’s surface area can only grow and never shrink: scim.ag/3KaSCBE
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Maximiliano Isi retweeted
Maximiliano Isi@maxisi10 Sep 2025
Meet GW250114, a landmark detection of gravitational waves that gives us an unprecedented view of the nature of black holes and the nature of space and time, as predicted by Einstein, Hawking and many others. journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac…

GW250114: Testing Hawking's Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes

Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has shown Hawking's area law to hold with high credibility.

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Black holes can ring, and we think those vibrations hold clues to the mysteries of space and time. Learn about the latest @LIGO recordings of these fleeting black hole tunes simonsfoundation.org/2025/09…
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Simons Foundation
@SimonsFdn17 Sep 2025
#FlatironCCA astrophysicist Maximiliano Isi and colleagues have used measurements from @LIGO to reveal insights into the properties of black holes and the fundamental nature of space-time, hinting at how quantum physics and Einstein’s general relativity fit together: simonsfoundation.org/2025/09… @FlatironInst #science #astrophysics
quote from Maximiliano Isi: “With this new detection, we have an exquisitely detailed view of the signal both before and after the black hole merger.”

ALT quote from Maximiliano Isi: “With this new detection, we have an exquisitely detailed view of the signal both before and after the black hole merger.”

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“That’s such a fundamental, pure theorem of general relativity that to see it verified is really fantastic.” scim.ag/3VFnX1Q

Strongest black hole collision yet confirms theories of Einstein, Hawking

Observation confirms that a black hole’s area can only grow and never shrink

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Our Center for Computational Astrophysics is #hiring postdocs! Come undertake independent research in areas that have strong synergy with #FlatironCCA or our other computational centers. Apply by 10/31: apply.interfolio.com/173403 #science #astrophysics
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Maximiliano Isi@maxisi13 Sep 2025
What a difference 10 years makes! I am thrilled that @LIGO's GW250114 will be featured on the cover of the @PhysRevLett just like GW150914, our first gravitational-wave signal, in 2016. You can see the detectors' improvement by eye: notice how much clearer the signal on the right is! #GW10Years #BlackHole #GravitationalWaves #GW250114
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“That’s such a fundamental, pure theorem of general relativity that to see it verified is really fantastic.” scim.ag/3VFnX1Q

Strongest black hole collision yet confirms theories of Einstein, Hawking

Observation confirms that a black hole’s area can only grow and never shrink

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Maximiliano Isi retweeted
LIGO@LIGO11 Sep 2025
Replying to @LIGO @PhysRevLett @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR
"Strongest black hole collision yet confirms theories of Einstein, Hawking" @hadriancho of @NewsfromScience writes about our discovery of #GW250114 science.org/content/article/… #O4IsHere #EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight #KerrWasRight 🔭🧪⚛️☄️
A comparison of GW250114 with our first detection GW150914. The stretching of space in the new black hole merger (top) is similar to that in the first one ever spotted (bottom), but because of reductions in the noise in the detectors, the signal stands out far more clearly. Graphic by C. Bickel/Science. Data from us

ALT A comparison of GW250114 with our first detection GW150914. The stretching of space in the new black hole merger (top) is similar to that in the first one ever spotted (bottom), but because of reductions in the noise in the detectors, the signal stands out far more clearly. Graphic by C. Bickel/Science. Data from us

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Notable participación de la delegación uruguaya en la XVII Olimpíada Latinoamericana de Astronomía y Astronáutica, en Barra do Piraí- Río de Janeiro, Brasil. La delegación obtuvo dos menciones de honor, dos medallas de bronce y una medalla de plata. ¡Felicitaciones!
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What a difference 10 years makes! I am thrilled that @LIGO's GW250114 will be featured on the cover of the @PhysRevLett just like GW150914, our first gravitational-wave signal, in 2016. You can see the detectors' improvement by eye: notice how much clearer the signal on the right is! #GW10Years #BlackHole #GravitationalWaves #GW250114
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Physical Review Letters@PhysRevLett12 Sep 2025
Volume 135, Issue 11 journals.aps.org/prl/issues/… Cover: Inspiral, merger, and ringdown for a pair of black holes, which allowed confirmation of Hawking’s area law. Data are from @LIGOWA (red) and @LIGOLA (blue) journals.aps.org/prl/issues/…
PRL cover with the caption in the tweet. The image shows an artist's rendering of the black hole merger and the corresponding gravitational-wave data.

ALT PRL cover with the caption in the tweet. The image shows an artist's rendering of the black hole merger and the corresponding gravitational-wave data.

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Science News
@ScienceNews11 Sep 2025
Newly reported gravitational waves rang out as clear as a bell. sciencenews.org/article/ring…

A ‘ringing’ black hole matches scientists’ predictions

Gravitational waves emitted after two black holes coalesced agree with theories from physicists Stephen Hawking and Roy Kerr.

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Ten years after scientists first detected gravitational waves emerging from two colliding black holes, a research team that includes @Columbia professor Maximiliano Isi, has recorded a new signal that confirms two important predictions. news.columbia.edu/news/unpre…

An Unprecedented View of Merging Black Holes

New views of two colliding black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking using Albert Einstein’s theory.

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Janna Levin
@JannaLevin10 Sep 2025
Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead. nytimes.com/2025/09/10/scien… via @NYTimes

Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead. (Published 2025)

Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.

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