Scientists record the largest black hole merger ever observed
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Scientists detected the largest black hole merger ever, resulting in a black hole 225 times the sun's mass, challenging existing theories about black hole formation, especially in the mass gap between stellar and supermassive black holes, using gravitational wave data from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration.
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