LVK scientists detect collision of black holes

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- Niraj Pand

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.

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.