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Astronomers Spot a Black Hole so Massive They Weren’t Sure it Could Exist – Gizmodo Australia
One of the greatest things about being an astrophysicist is that you keep discovering things you didn’t think were possible. Now the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo Observatory have discovered their largest black hole yet.…
One of the greatest things about being an astrophysicist is that you keep discovering things you didnt think were possible. Now the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo Observatory have discovered their largest black hole yet. Its important because scientists had in fact doubted whether black holes of this mass could even exist.
After months of painstaking analysis, the team has just reported their discovery in papers in the Physical Review Letters and the Astrop…
