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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Tom Watling

Scientists measure largest ever collision of two black holes

Two black holes have collided far beyond the distant edge of the Milky Way, creating the biggest merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors.

The two phenomena, each more than 100 times the mass of the sun, had been circling each other before they violently collided about 10 billion light years from Earth.

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