LIGO, Virgo detectors record collision of massive black holes

Space Daily

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Washington DC (UPI) Sep 02, 2020

Signatures recorded by the LIGO and Virgo observatories have revealed the most massive gravitational wave source yet detected, a ripple in space-time created by a merger between two rapidly spinning, mammoth black holes. The size of the merger isn't all that's special about GW190521. One of the two giant black holes features a mass 85 times that of the sun, making it an "impossible" bla

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