The Universe’s biggest black holes may be forged in violent mergers

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Scientists studying gravitational waves believe they may have uncovered how the Universe creates its biggest black holes. Instead of forming directly from collapsing stars, these enormous objects appear to grow through repeated black hole collisions inside extremely crowded star clusters.

The new research, led by Cardiff University, examined version 4.0 of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC4), which contains 153 reliable detections o...

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