Black Holes! The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Detected & The Tiny Spacecraft that may One Day Travel to a Black Hole

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Scientists detect most massive black hole merger ever — and it birthed a monster 225 times as massive as the sun This tiny spacecraft could race to a black hole and rewrite physics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.1	I'm Marcus Paffett on today's episode. A whole lot of black holes. First, scientists have detected the largest black hole merger ever. Plus, a paperclip
1:20.0	sized spacecraft traveling to a black hole to study it? Science fiction or perhaps actual science? Details coming up. Those stories
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1:35.2	science and author Ben Turner. Scientists have detected the biggest black hole merger ever known.
1:42.7	A gigantic collision from two massive space-time ruptures
1:46.6	spiraling into each other. And it could hold evidence of the most elusive type of black
1:52.2	hole in the universe. The merger, which happened on the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy,
1:58.2	produced a black hole roughly 225 times more massive than the sun.
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