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Two Mammoth ‘Impossible’ Black Holes Merge to Mark Most Massive Collision Ever Detected – The Weather Channel
The short gravitational signal received by the LIGO in May 2019 was named GW190521 from a collision of two massive black holes.
Artist’s impression of the binary black holes merger.
(Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav))
At a Glance
- On May 21, 2019, astronomers detected four short wiggles of gravitational waves passing through the Earth.
- It was detected from a source which is five gigaparsecs away.
- The merger of the two black holes has led to the formation of new class known as intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH).
A long time ago, seven…
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