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Gravitational wave detectors have found their biggest black hole yet – Trading U

By Leah Crane An artist’s impression of black holes about to collideMark Myers, ARC Centre ofExcellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)The Laser

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By Leah Crane
An artists impression of black holes about to collide
Mark Myers, ARC Centre ofExcellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its partner detector Virgo have made their biggest find yet. They spotted two huge black holes smashing together to form another  with a mass 142 times that of the sun, the biggest black hole detected using gravitational waves.
We have direct evidence for black holes both smaller a…

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