On November 23, 2023, scientists detected the largest black hole collision ever recorded, and it’s changing everything we thought we knew about how black holes form. Captured by LIGO’s ultra-sensitive gravitational wave detectors, this cosmic event involved two black holes — one 100 times the mass of the Sun and the other 140 — merging into a super black hole over 265 solar masses.
This groundbreaking discovery reveals that black holes can grow through multiple mergers, not just from collapsing stars. The ripple in space-time, named GW231123, lasted just 0.1 seconds but carries secrets from billions of years ago — possibly from as far as 10 billion light years away.
It’s invisible, massive, and absolutely fascinating
Watch to discover what this means for our understanding of the universe :milky_way:
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