Scientists have measured the recoil velocity from a cataclysmic collision between two black holes for the very first time. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time first proposed to exist by Albert Einstein, and detected for the first time in 2015. Another first came in 2019, when scientists picked up a gravitational wave signal resulting from a violent merger between vastly …
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