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Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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It's actually mind-blwoing - current estimates suggest there are about 100 black hole mergers happening somewhere in the observable universe every minute, but we only detect a tiny fraction because most are too distant for our current instruments to pick up the gravitational waves.