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LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date

created: July 14, 2025, 8:06 p.m. | updated: July 15, 2025, 8:47 p.m.

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a final black hole approximately 225 times the mass of our Sun. In that case, the waves emanated from a black hole merger that resulted in a final black hole 62 times the mass of our Sun. One possibility is that the two black holes in this binary formed through earlier mergers of smaller black holes." "Despite the most likely explanation remaining a black hole merger, more complex scenarios could be the key to deciphering its unexpected features.

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