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These monster black holes did not form the usual way—their history of violence is written into spacetime ripples

  • May 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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These monster black holes did not form the usual way—their history of violence is written into spacetime ripples
The most massive black holes in the universe detected by the ripples they make in spacetime were not born directly from collapsing stars, according to a new study. These cosmic giants instead build up through a series of repeated and extremely violent collision events in very densely populated star clusters, an international team of researchers argue.

Originally published at Phys.org

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