"On Nov.23, 2013, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration detected gravitational waves from the most massive black hole merger yet. Black holes 100 and 140 times the mass of out Sun combined into a 225-solar-mass black hole." November 2025 Astronomy, p. 7.
So, just curious, where did the other 15 solar masses go? Was it converted into, you know, not mass? That's a big bang.
ReplyDeleteNot sure. Fusion makes a lot of mass into energy. Fusion is inevitable at high pressures and temperatures. A collision should give both. Some probably disappeared down that black hole to wherever black holes lead.
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