Black holes are getting stranger — even to astronomers. They’ve now detected the signal from a long ago violent collision of two black holes that created a new one of a size that had never been seen before.
Canadian Space Agency set to get first female president as space race gains steam “It’s the biggest bang since the Big Bang observed by humanity,” said Caltech physicist Alan Weinstein, who was part of the discovery team.Researchers with the University of British Columbia were also on that team.Black holes are compact regions of space so densely packed that not even light can escape.