An 'impossible' black hole merger may finally be solved thanks to Einstein's relativity — but it raises an even bigger mystery

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 it also poses a new problem.

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