Ligo has seen the most massive black hollow collision ever detained

A record-breaking black hole-burpon expanded precisely our views on the universe extremely unusual.

Sales of Laser Interferometal Gravitation Wave Observatory (LIGO) began to detect gravitational waves rips in the drug of physical reality 10 years ago, it has caught almost 100 holls between peers with black holes. On November 23, 2023, Ligo picked up such a signal that was “extraordinary and amazing to interpret,” says Sophie Bini at the California Institute of Technology. She and her colleagues eventually decided that it was produced by the most massive black hole fusion ever.

One of the colliding black holes was approx. 100 times like the massive like the sun, while the other reached almost 140 sun masses. The previous record was held by a black hole fusion about half so massive. Team member Mark Hannam at Cardiff University in the UK says not only the black holes were huge, but they also spin very quickly, which puts them on the outskirts of what we can predict space -based on the mathematical models we have of the universe.

The masses of these black holes are too high for them to form by collapsing directly from an aging star, so there is good reason to believe that they are the product of previous mergers between smaller black holes, Hannam says. “There may have been several consecutive mergers,” he says.

“Ten years ago we were surprising that there are black holes in 30 sun masses. Here are black holes of more than 100 sun masses that are just spectacular,” says Davide Gerosa at the University of Mila-Bicocca in Italy. Gravey wave signals from massive and fast -spinning black holes are shorter than those produced by less, so it is also more challenging to discover them, he says. Bini presented this work at the Edoardo Amaldi conference on gravitational waves in Glasgow, UK on July 14.

Hannam and Bini both say to fully understand the new signal, including determining the origin of the black holes, need future observations of similar dramatic mergers. Ligo has detained an increasing number of black hole mergers with each upgrade, so it is likely to identify more cosmic record sites in the future. However, the Trump administration in May offers closure of half of the plant, which is welded, in Hannam’s view, signals detect signals as the new almost impossible.