
LIGO has spotted the most massive black hole collision ever detected
Illustration of merging of black holes Shutterstock / Jurik Peter A record-breaking black hole smash-up just expanded our view of the universe’s most extreme inhabitants. Since the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) started detecting gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of physical reality – 10 years ago, it has captured nearly 100 collisions between…