Illustrative photo. Does not represent the fusion now captured by Ligo
Astronomers have detected the fusion of massive black holes ever – which gave rise to a 225 times massive monster than the sun. This could lead to the discovery of an extremely rare type of black hole.
The Gravitational Wave Observatory by Laser Interferometer (Ligo) detected, in 2023, the Greater fusion of always black holes.
It is now known that the fusion, which occurred on the outskirts of our Milky Way Galaxy, produced a black hole About 225 times more massive than the sun.
It’s almost double the previous recordwhich gave rise to a final black hole with a mass of about 142 suns.
As it writes, this discovery was made by the collaboration Ligo Virgo-Kagra (LVK), a group of four detectors that identify cataclysmic cosmic events from the gravitational waves that propagate in their trail. Researchers present the results this week at the 24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR24).
Gravitational waves are ripples in the tissue of spacetime, whose existence was Expected by Albert Einstein and confirmed by Ligo in 2015.
Due to their innovative discovery, the physicists involved in the investigation received a Nobel Prize in 2017.
But the most intriguing for scientists is the mass of the two black holes: about 100 and 140 times that of the sun.
“For really massive stars, our theories say that collapse is unstable, and most of the dough is carried by the supernova explosions, and we cannot form a black hole we do not expect to form black holes between 60 and 130 times the mass of the sun. But in this observation, black holes seem to be in this mass interval,” he told Live Science, Mark HannamProfessor of Physics at the University of Cardiff, in Wales, and member of LVK collaboration.
