Astronomers have detected the most massive merging of two black holes yet through the oldest and most distant gravitational waves to ever hit Earth.
This collision created the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered, and it has a mass of 142 times that of our sun. The"bang" of energy created by this black hole merger released through gravitational waves, or ripples in the space-time continuum, equaled the energy of eight suns. And those ripples took 7 billion years to travel across space to reach us on Earth.
Astronomers find the closest black hole to Earth, 1,000 light-years awayThen, there is this new intermediate black hole, which is in between the two. It was formed by two massive black holes that were likely created by collapsing stars. Of the two black holes that merged, the heavier one was 85 solar masses and the other black hole was about 66 solar masses. Stars collapse beneath their own weight when their cores evolve and no longer have enough pressure to support the star's outer layers.
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