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black hole merger

BLAK HOHL MER-jer

blæk hoʊl ˈmɜːrdʒər

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blackholemerger

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collision and coalescence of two black holes; the event releases enormous energy as gravitational waves detectable by instruments such as LIGO; the first confirmed gravitational wave detection in 2015 was produced by a binary black hole merger approximately 1.3 billion light-years away

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