Astronomers Detect Most Massive Black Hole Collision to Date

Two Massive Black Holes Merged to Form One 225 Times the Mass of the Sun

Back in November, a ripple passed through Earth. Not the kind you’d feel with your feet on the ground, but one that shuddered across space-time itself—a literal echo of two massive black holes smashing into each other somewhere near the edge of the Milky Way. The signal, now confirmed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, marks the most significant black hole merger ever detected. And the cosmic corpse it left behind? A black hole roughly…

Astronomers detect the most massive black hole collision ever

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented proportions.

Astronomers Detect Most Massive Black Hole Collision to Date

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research.

Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date

(CNN) — A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research.

Largest Black Hole Merger Ever Observed Detected by LIGO–a Universe-Shaking Event

A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created something 225-times the size of our Sun. It’s the largest such event ever detected in the history of gravitational wave astronomy, and pushed the limits of the discipline and what it can teach us to the highest degrees. […] The post Largest Black Hole Merger Ever Observed Detected by LIGO–a Universe-Shaking Event appeared …