A black hole 225 times heavier than the Sun has just appeared

Scientists have just discovered an unprecedentedly massive black hole, revealing terrifying mysteries about the structure of space.

According to the announcement from the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration - an organization specializing in observing gravitational waves to detect black hole collisions, the "merging" event of two black holes in the universe was detected through small ripples in the fabric of space-time, appearing when the black holes merged. Photo: Canva.

Specifically, two black holes with masses 103 and 137 times that of the Sun, respectively, merged to create a "cosmic monster" codenamed GW231123. Photo: Victor de Schwanberg/SPL.

Professor Mark Hannam of Cardiff University and a member of the LIGO team said that these giant black holes could be the products of previous collisions, opening up the possibility of a complex chain of mergers in the universe. Photo: Dabarti CGI/Shutterstock.

During the merger, the black holes still spin very quickly, 400,000 times faster than the Earth's rotation. Image: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC).

According to the research team, they are moving at 80 - 90% of their maximum possible speed, close to the limit allowed by Einstein's general theory of relativity. Photo: NDTV.

GW231123 is not only the largest black hole ever recorded through a collision - far surpassing the previous record of about 140 times the mass of the Sun - but also defies all current theoretical models and gravitational wave detection technology. The discovery is a major milestone in astrophysics. Photo: European Space Agency.

“Although the main cause is still believed to be a black hole merger, more complex scenarios could reveal previously unknown secrets. A promising future is opening up!”, said Dr. Gregorio Carullo, lecturer at the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham. Photo: sciencedaily.

GW231123 was discovered in November 2023, during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observation period from May 2023 to January 2024. Image: Lynette Cook/Science Source.

Details of the black hole GW231123 and related findings were presented at the 24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravity (GR24) and the 16th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, held in Glasgow, Scotland on 14 July. Credit: ESO/M. Kommesser.

Readers are invited to watch the video : Universe map with more than 900,000 stars, galaxies and black holes. Source: THĐT1.

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