Universe has an exotic way of making black holes

Scientists recently announced the discovery of a black hole that shouldn’t even exist according to our current understanding of the cosmic monsters. Born of a merger between two black holes, GW190521 is the first ‘intermediate-mass’ black hole (that can range from 100 to 100,000 solar masses) ever observed. The discovery is a milestone in gravitational-wave astronomy, believes Dr Karan Jani, astrophysicist at the Department of Physics &