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Scientists Detected a New Kind of Black Hole Being Born in a Bizarre Event<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A merger with a black hole possessing an unexplained ‘forbidden mass’ created the first conclusive example of an intermediate black hole in the most massive merger ever detected using ripples in spacetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Maddie Bender<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SIMULATION OF A BLACK HOLE MERGER IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVES. <\/em>
IMAGE:\u00a0FLICKR\/NASA UNIVERSE<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An international collaboration of astronomers has observed the formation of a black hole with the mass of 142 suns, the first conclusive evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole. The black hole was the result of the most massive black hole merger ever detected with gravitational waves, which are ripples in spacetime that can be detected from Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only did the merger produce the first example of a new kind of black hole, but one of the merging black holes possessed a \u201cforbidden mass\u201d that could not be explained by our usual understanding of how they form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it’s remarkable that we got such a clear observation of ‘Here’s a black hole with can’t be explained with our classic understanding of how stars collapse,'” said Christopher Berry, an astrophysics professor at Northwestern University and a LIGO Scientific Collaboration Editorial Board reviewer for the discovery paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discoveries were enabled by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometer, two of the world\u2019s gravitational wave detectors. Companion papers published in the journals\u00a0Physical Review Letters<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em>\u00a0on Wednesday described the signal, named GW190521.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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