Live Science September 19, 2026 • 12:00

Scientists can finally explain an 'impossible' merger of 'forbidden' black holes — but there's a new mystery to solve - Live Science

By Harry Baker

Scientists can finally explain an 'impossible' merger of 'forbidden' black holes — but there's a new mystery to solve - Live Science

New research suggests that a perplexing signal created by a pair of colliding black holes may have been warped by a space-time phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. This theory could finally explain the "impossible" size of the merging singularities, but…

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