When the LIGO and Virgo observatories detected gravitational waves in the spring of 2019, the event represented the biggest merger of two black holes ever detected. The wave event, called GW190521, shook the cosmos with a power equal to the energy from eight Suns. The signal was brief and lasted less than one-tenth of aContinue reading "The biggest black hole merger just got weirder"
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