This animation shows the increasing sample of gravitational wave sources through the five main data releases that are now available (GTWC-1, GWTC-2.1, GWTC-3, GWTC-4, and GWTC-5). Watch as the sample of merging black holes and neutron stars detected via gravitational waves has dramatically increased over the past few years, with the results of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA.
Credit: Visualization: LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA / Aaron Geller / Northwestern