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Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.
(www.popularmechanics.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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Every new thing cosmologists find in space 'shouldn't exist'. That's how they advance science. At this point, this kind of title for this kind of news is so common it even ceased to be a trope. It leaves my spacetime unwrinkled.
I’ll read “physics has a problem” as in like “here’s a math problem to solve.”
Yeah, popmech and popsci have been trash for a while.
There are things they find that should exist. For example we though exoplanets were out there but didn't find them until a few years ago.
Scientist measured short GW signal that is difficult to interpret. We publish to get more eyes on the problem.
"Given the small number of observable GW cycles, the large uncertainties in our measurements, and the limitations of current signal models, we expect that there is much still to learn about GW231123 and its source. The feasibility of a wide range of other alternatives to black-hole mergers remains to be investigated. Even within the binary-black-hole merger interpretation, we expect to learn more from detailed studies of high-spin binaries, high-eccentricity mergers, hyperbolic encounters, and lensed signals"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08219