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LIGO Just Saw The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Detected
The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.
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Two monster black holes just collided — it’s so massive, it shouldn’t exist
Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...
Largest-ever merger of black holes forms one 225 times the mass of the sun, astronomers say
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...
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Monster black hole merger is biggest ever seen
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...
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What Happens to Science When Black Holes Break the Rules?
This is the most massive black hole binary we’ve observed through gravitational waves, and it presents a real challenge to ...
Merger of two massive black holes is one for the record books
To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...
Gravitational shockwave: LIGO catches a 225-solar-mass black-hole smash-up
Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...