New Delhi: The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, made up of gravitational wave detectors in USA, Italy and Japan have announced the discovery of the most massive black hole merger till date. The signal, designated as GW231123 was detected during the fourth observation run of the LVK network. The merger resulted in a black hole containing 225 times the mass of the Sun. The individual black holes that merged contained about 100 and 140 times the mass of the Sun. In addition their high mass, the pair of black holes that merged are also spinning rapidly, near the limits allowed by Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

Both of these black holes were so........

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