Two Black Holes Just Merged Into Something 225 Times the Mass of Our Sun
#BlackHoles #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves Two black holes merged into something 225 times the mass of our Sun — and it produced a flash of light that should have been impossible. We break down the most extreme black hole collision ever detected, what it revealed about the forbidden mass gap, rogue black holes drifting through space, and why this single event rewrote the rules of how the universe builds its largest structures. If you find the universe as mind-bending as we do, subscribe and come along. Sources: a. LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration — GW190521 detection paper https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... b. LIGO and Virgo — GW190521 implications paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10... c. Graham et al. — Candidate electromagnetic counterpart in AGN J124942.3+344929 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... d. McKernan et al. — AGN disk merger channel and mass-gap black holes https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10... e. Fishbach & Holz — Masses in the pair instability gap https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10... f. NASA — Intermediate-mass black holes overview https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-c... #BlackHoles #Space #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #LIGO #Cosmos #Universe #Physics #Astronomy #NASA
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