{ INDIA PLAYS KEY ROLE } LVK scientists detect collision of black holes

Scientists have detected the collision of two massive black holes, each several dozen times larger than the Sun, a space crash that formed an even larger black hole, sending ripples through the gravitational ripples of spacetime.

- Niraj Pandit

The event left scientists from the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra (LVK) group that observed it with a raft of questions and challenged extant theories of the formation of black holes, which are astronomical objects with gravitational pulls so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.

While one black hole was roughly 100 times the mass of the Sun, the other was 140 times. When they collided, they formed an even larger black hole over 240 solar masses, in an event researchers labelled GW231123.