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50 Astronomers have long suspected that merging black holes can give the resulting larger black hole a massive boost of speed, and have finally spotted this happening
Space 11 January 2022By Leah Crane
When a pair of black holes merge, the resulting larger black hole can be sent hurtling away at extraordinary speeds – and now astronomers have seen it happen.
Vijay Varma at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany and his colleagues found this fast-moving black hole by taking a second look at data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and its corresponding observatory in Italy, called Virgo. These observatories measure gravitational …
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