Astronomers detect the most massive, powerful black hole collision yet

LIGO Scientific Collaboration portal shared a press release on its website on September 2, revealing information about most massive gravitational-wave source yet detected. LIGO and Virgo Detectors h actually detected gravitational waves on May 21, 2019. y detected signal, which was n labelled as GW190521, on May 21, 2019. National Science Foundation’s LIGO refers to Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, which is a pair of identical, 4 km long interferometers in  US, while Virgo is a 3 km long detector in Italy. 

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Astromers discover two black holes colliding

According to Verge, collision of se two black holes h been anunced on September 2 in 'Physical Review Letters' as well as ' Astrophysical Journal Letters'. It is said that collision between two black holes that was detected yesterday is biggest ever detected collision of 2 black holes. collision was detected via gravitational waves that were created after collision. This collision between two black holes actually occurred 7 billion years ago, but ir effect has reached Earth w.

collision was between two black holes, one which was 66 times mass of Sun while or one was 85 times mass of our Sun. two immense black holes circled each or until y collided and merged, due to which bursts of energy was released throughout universe. w, this black hole is 142 times mass of our Sun. This could be a big find for astromers, as this black hole comes under intermediate-mass black holes (Balck holes whose mass ranges from 100 to 1000 times of mass of that of our Sun). 

Till w, astromers could only find smaller black holes that ranged 5-100 times mass of our Sun, and supermassive black holes that are millions - billions of times size of our Sun's mass. Astromers are w expecting to discover new findings of universe which will help m uncover more puzzling secrets about universe.

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Intermediate-mass black holes finally discovered

National Geographic reported that Caltech astromer named Matw Graham mentioned that this event might be largest explosion ever kwn in universe as of yet. A LIGO team member Christopher Berry, who is a physicist at rthwestern University, also stated that w y have discovered that intermediate-mass black holes do exist, a principle that was a mystery for a long time. According to press release by LIGO, Alan Weinstein who is a LIGO member, as well as a professor of physics at Caltech, stated that “This event opens more questions than it provides answers," but "from perspective of discovery and physics, it’s a very exciting thing”. 

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