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{ INDIA PLAYS KEY ROLE } LVK scientists detect collision of black holes
Hindustan Times Jaipur
|July 17, 2025
MUMBAI: 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.
This story is from the July 17, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Jaipur.
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