Astronomers say that the largest integration ever of black holes is 225 times

Scientists say they have discovered the largest integration of two black gaps, and they make up 225 times the mass of the sun, adding that the new discovery “pays the limits” of how astronomers understand how black holes are created.

Two black holes have been combined to make the huge group, according to the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra cooperation, an international group that uses gravitational waves to discover the black hole mergers that defined the event. Gravity waves occur when there are accurate distortions in space time, resulting from events such as the merger of the black hole, the group He said in a press release.

One of the black holes was about 103 times the mass of the sun. The other was about 137 times. Mark Hanam, a professor at Cardiff University and a member of the LIGO scientific cooperation, said in the statement that these large black holes may have been formed by previous integration operations.

Scientists said that even within the integration, black holes rotate quickly. The speed of their rotation is about 400,000 times in the speed of the Earth’s rotation, and cooperation He said in a drawing. They move in about 80 % to 90 % of the maximum possible speed.

“It seems that black holes are rotating very quickly-near the maximum that Einstein’s theory of general relativity allows,” said Dr. Charlie Hoy, an astronomical physicist in the wave of gravity, and a member of Lego and his post-PhD fellow at the University of Portsmouth at the news statement. “This makes the sign is difficult to model and explain it.”

The huge black hole GW231123 was named. Hanam said that its unusual size and behavior is the challenge of understanding scientists to form a black hole. Previously, the largest known black hole came from the combination of about 140 times of the sun’s mass.

Astronomers said that the discovery of GW231123 also opens doors for new research. The Ligo-Virgo-Kagra Cooperation said that the behavior and size of the black hole “pushes the” boundaries “of the current theoretical models and the technology of detecting the current gravitational wave.

“It will take years until the community will completely reveal this complex pattern of reference and all its effects,” said Dr. Gregory Carolo, an assistant member of Lego and assistant professor at the Institute of Astronomy. “Despite the most likely explanation, black hole scenarios can be more complex scenarios are the key to deciphering its unexpected features. Exciting times in the future!”

The black hole was discovered in November 2023, during a monitoring period by the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra cooperation. The observation period started in May 2023, and the first part of the period ending in January 2024.

More information About GW231123, other black holes discovered by cooperation this month at the twenty -fourth international conference on relativity and general attractiveness (GR24) and the 16th EDOARDO AMALDI conference on gravitational waves, two participating conferences were presented in Glasgow, Scotland. Data from the surveillance window will be published later in the summer. The cooperation said that the data used to discover and study the huge black hole will allow other researchers to use it.