- Collisions between black holes can launch newly melded cosmic sinkholes at speeds up to nearly one-tenth the speed of light, researchers report. Moving that fast — about 28,500 kilometers per second — it would take about 13 seconds to complete the average trip from Earth to the moon. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/recoiling-black-hole-gravitational-wave 20 comments science
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