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‘Biggest Since Big Bang’: Scientists Detect Signal from Violent Collision of Two Black Holes – News18
The first-ever discovered intermediate black hole, at 142 times the mass of the sun. The Gravitational waves from the merger were detected by the LIGO and Virgo observatories in May 2019.
Black holes are getting stranger even to astronomers. Theyve now detected the signal from a long-ago violent collision of two black holes that created a new one of a size that had never been seen before.
Its the biggest bang since the Big Bang observed by humanity, said Caltech physicist Alan Weinstein, who was part of the discovery team.
Black holes are compact regions of space so densely packed that not even light can escape. Until now, astronomers only had observed them in two general sizes…
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