00:00We just witnessed the biggest black hole collision in history,
00:03and it's rewriting what we thought we knew about the universe.
00:07On November 23, 2023, two massive black holes collided,
00:11and scientists picked up the ripple it sent through space-time.
00:14This ripple, a gravitational wave lasting just 0.1 seconds, was named GWW-wandan-23.
00:22It was captured by detectors in Washington and Louisiana, part of the powerful LIGO network.
00:27Now here's what makes this discovery jaw-dropping.
00:30One black hole was about 100 times the mass of our sun.
00:34The other? 140.
00:36When they collided, they formed a black hole more than 265 times the sun's mass.
00:41That's the largest we've ever seen from a merger like this.
00:45Until now, scientists believed black holes this massive couldn't be formed by dying stars alone.
00:51This new data suggests black holes can grow bigger by merging multiple times.
00:55Like cosmic snowballs getting larger with every roll.
00:58Even crazier, this event happened billions of years ago.
01:03Somewhere between a few million and ten billion light-years away.
01:06So no, it won't affect Earth, but it's giving us a deeper look into how our universe evolves.
01:12One tiny ripple.
01:13One giant leap in our understanding of the cosmos.
01:15One impossibility.
01:17Five scariest.
01:17One giant leap in our understanding of the cosmos.
01:18One giant leap in our scientist.
01:19Be example.
01:20One wild aulyémons.
01:20One giant leap in our understanding of Research.
01:21One giant leap in our understanding of the ecology and the mankind's
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