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Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.
(www.popularmechanics.com)
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To me it's interesting how probable it is for such improbably large black holes to meet in open space. Just how often such events should happen overall for us to notice one during our puny lifetime?
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.