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Explaining off-kilter black hole mergers may need a lot more black holes. A lot.
Explaining off-kilter black hole mergers may need a lot more black holes. A lot.,In 2019, ripples in the fabric of spacetime swept over Earth, the gravitational wave announcement of two black holes merging. But unlike the dozens of such mergers seen previously, this one was pretty weird. For one thing, the two component black holes were really massive — many dozens of times the mass of the Sun — but the signal received indicated other odd characteristics.

Explaining off-kilter black hole mergers may need a lot more black holes. A lot.

In 2019, ripples in the fabric of spacetime swept over Earth, the gravitational wave announcement of two black holes merging. But unlike the dozens of such mergers seen previously, this one was pretty weird. For one thing, the two component black holes were really massive — many dozens of times the mass of the Sun — but the signal received indicated other odd characteristics.