08-29-2019, 05:32 AM
Additional news on the LIGO detection TomK posted a few weeks ago:
Possible Detection of a Black Hole So Big It ‘Should Not Exist’
Seven experts contacted by Quanta said they’d heard that among the 22 flurries of gravitational waves detected by LIGO and Virgo since April, one of the signals came from a collision involving a black hole of unanticipated heft — purportedly as heavy as 100 suns. LIGO/Virgo team members would neither confirm nor deny the rumored detection.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/possible-...-20190828/
Possible Detection of a Black Hole So Big It ‘Should Not Exist’
Seven experts contacted by Quanta said they’d heard that among the 22 flurries of gravitational waves detected by LIGO and Virgo since April, one of the signals came from a collision involving a black hole of unanticipated heft — purportedly as heavy as 100 suns. LIGO/Virgo team members would neither confirm nor deny the rumored detection.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/possible-...-20190828/
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