Two black holes met by chance and created something never seen before

Two black holes met by chance and created something never seen before

The ripples in spacetime generated by colliding black holes have taught us a lot about these enigmatic objects. These gravitational waves encode information about black holes: their masses, the shape of their internal spiral towards each other, their spins and their orientations. From there, the scientists established that most of the collisions we’ve seen have …

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