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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Ian Sample Science editor

Scientists detect biggest ever merger of two massive black holes

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A computer simulation of the collision of two black holes released after the event was detected for the first time by Ligo in 2016. Photograph: LIGO Laboratory/Reuters

Scientists have detected ripples in space-time from the violent collision of two massive black holes that spiralled into one another far beyond the distant edge of the Milky Way.

The black holes, each more than 100 times the mass of the sun, began circling each other long ago and finally slammed together to form an even more massive black hole about 10bn light years from Earth.

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