An international team of scientists led by the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE) and the University of Aveiro shows that the heaviest black hole collision ever observed, produced by the gravitational-wave GW190521, might actually be something even more mysterious: the merger of two boson stars. This would be the first evidence of the existence of these hypothetical objects, which…
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Largest black hole collision ever detected
Two large black holes crashed together and formed a massive new one — the largest of its kind ever detected, so large that physicists weren’t sure it could exist at all. Source: https://www.livescience.com/super-big-black-hole-crash.html