Gravitational-wave Astronomer. Assistant Professor @Columbia | Associate Research Scientist @SimonsFdn. (Tweets English & Español)
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10 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.
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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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9 Oct 2025
Come see Kip Thorne’s talk Monday afternoon at @Yale !
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10 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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30 Sep 2025
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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22 Sep 2025
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
ALT Clear Signal Sheds Light on Black Holes infographic
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21 Sep 2025
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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10 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.
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19 Sep 2025
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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17 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
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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15 Sep 2025
“That’s such a fundamental, pure theorem of general relativity that to see it verified is really fantastic.” scim.ag/3VFnX1Q
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15 Sep 2025
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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13 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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10 Sep 2025
“That’s such a fundamental, pure theorem of general relativity that to see it verified is really fantastic.” scim.ag/3VFnX1Q
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"Strongest black hole collision yet confirms theories of Einstein, Hawking"
@hadriancho of @NewsfromScience writes about our discovery of #GW250114
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#O4IsHere #EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight #KerrWasRight 🔭🧪⚛️☄️
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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12 Sep 2025
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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12 Sep 2025
Volume 135, Issue 11
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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)
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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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11 Sep 2025
Newly reported gravitational waves rang out as clear as a bell.
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11 Sep 2025
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.
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10 Sep 2025
Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead. nytimes.com/2025/09/10/scien… via @NYTimes
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