{"id":218008,"date":"2025-07-16T01:24:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/record-sized-collision-between-black-holes-detected-by-astronomers"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:24:51","slug":"record-sized-collision-between-black-holes-detected-by-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/record-sized-collision-between-black-holes-detected-by-astronomers","title":{"rendered":"Record-Sized Collision Between Black Holes Detected by Astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-sized-collision-between-black-holes-detected-by-astronomers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black holes<\/a> have collided in a merger that could revolutionize our understanding of black hole growth.<\/p>\n<p>Named GW 231,123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it\u2019s the most massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a> collision we\u2019ve seen yet, resulting in an object <a href=\"https:\/\/ligo.org\/detections\/gw231123\/\">heavier than 225 Suns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the most massive black hole collision produced an object <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/most-massive-black-hole-collision-yet-is-finally-proof-of-middleweight-black-holes\">142 times the mass of the Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two black holes have collided in a merger that could revolutionize our understanding of black hole growth. Named GW 231,123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it\u2019s the most massive black hole collision we\u2019ve seen yet, resulting in an object heavier than 225 Suns. Previously, the most massive black hole collision [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}