Science
The biggest bang since the Big Bang – Sydney Morning Herald
Astronomers have detected a noise from the past that resulted in a black hole of a size never seen before.
Star collapses couldn’t create stellar black holes much bigger than 70 times the mass of our sun, scientists thought, according to physicist Nelson Christensen, research director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
Then in May 2019 two detectors picked up a signal that turned out to be the energy from two large stellar black holes crashing into each other. One was 66 times the mass of our sun and the other a husky 85 times the mass of the sun.
The end result: the first ever …
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