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GW231123: Forbidden Black Holes, CRISPR Psychiatry & Energy Addition
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LIGO has detected a 225-solar-mass black hole merger that standard stellar physics says is impossible — here's what it means. Plus: CRISPR-powered psychiatric drug prediction for underrepresented ancestries, and why the world isn't transitioning energy — it's adding it.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
LIGO just detected a black hole that standard physics says shouldn't exist. The signal, catalogued as GW231123, came from a merger of two black holes weighing roughly one hundred and one hundred and forty times the mass of our sun.
A different kind of frontier is opening in medicine. A new framework out of Brazil is combining CRISPR functional genomics with ancestry-aware analysis to predict how individual patients will respond to psychiatric drugs.
At Baku Energy Week, the head of the International Gas Union offered a blunt correction to a dominant narrative: this is not an energy transition. It's energy addition.
Three threads to track from here. On GW231123, watch for refined parameter estimates as the theoretical analysis matures.
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