Chung-Pei Ma

2 articles · 9 co-authors · latest: 2026-08-10
3,711 citations · h-index 18 · 55 papersData: Semantic Scholar

We have retold 2 papers by this author. 1 of them with a full read. most often about: black hole merger, LIGO, EHT. 9 co-authors across our retellings.

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Galaxies2026-05-292 minarXiv:2606.00218express
Hunting Invisible Giants
A vast hall where hundreds of orchestras play at once. Amid this din, you need to pick out one specific duet — two supermassive black holes circling each other in a distant galaxy. That's how pulsar timing arrays work: they listen to the "hum" of the entire sky, created by gravitational waves from many such pairs.
Cosmology2026-08-103 minarXiv:2608.09929
A Lottery with No Winners: Why the Gravitational-Wave Background Map Is Usually Blank
Imagine a lottery where instead of money, you win black holes. Each ticket is a random spot on the sky, and the prize is a gravitational wave from the merger of two giants. The chance of hitting the jackpot is minuscule, but if you do, the wave is heard across the entire universe.