The largest merger of two black holes ever witnessed:

Analysis of the Norridge Woods crop circle

Jerry Kroth, Ph.D.

On May 21, 2019, scientists reported a strange event observed by the
gigantic LIGO gravity-wave telescope located in Washington State and its
cousin in Louisiana. They thought it looked like a merger of two black holes,
but it wasn’t until six months later that articles were published about how
massive, eccentric, and unique the event was—and that they thought it was a
genuine black hole merger not a false alarm.

There have been 44 such mergers discovered, but his one was called “the
most massive gravitational wave binary every observed. 1According to one
astronomer, it “shook the universe!”2

The merger occurred 7 billion years ago and was first detected by humans
on May 21.

When I read about this, I wondered if such a significant celestial event

might have been punctuated by a crop circle, so, in a kind of devilish
curiosity, I looked to see if there were any crop circles in May of 2019. To
my astonishment, there was one that was eerily similar to the way scientists
were describing the black hole merger, which they had named GW190521

Here is a picture of the crop circle next to an artist’s rendering of the black
hole merger. 3 4 Look similar to you?



Why this black hole merger is so important

We will return to the crop circle, and try to decode it in due course, but
there is something to note about this particular cosmic event. We begin with
that.

The merger was extremely rare, compelling, weird, and not one of those 44
run-of-the-mill black hole mergers. It was stunning, and according to
astronomer Christian Ready, “the most massive black hole collision ever
detected.” 5

With two gravitational wave detectors in Washington and Louisiana, they

LIGO can coordinate the data and eliminate other possible causes and false
alarms.

In actual fact, on May 21, no one knew immediately if this was a black hole
merger. They just suspected that it might have been.

Curiously black holes emit a gravitational wave noise detectable by the

human ear. Astronomers refer to these as “chirps.” They last for less than a
tenth of a second, but if the merger is ‘gigantic’ or ‘titanic’ as Dr. Ready
described, then the chirp is at a much lower frequency.

It was in this case.

In fact, he says, the amount of energy released by this colossal merger was
greater in a tenth of a second than the most luminous quasar known in the
universe.

“According to discovery team member Viselike Kalogeria of

Northwestern, "this is the first and only firm/secure mass
measurement of an intermediate mass black hole at the time of
its birth . . . Now we know reliably at least one way such objects
can form, through the merger of other black holes."6

This merger offered to teach scientists a lot about relativity, quantum

mechanics, and even dark matter. The current thinking, circa 2022, seems
to be that matter and anti-matter pairs were involved, and so was what is
known as “pair instability,” “Such quantum phenomenon happens only
rarely.” 7

Controversies still abound. In

fact, one article about the merger
was titled “A black hole that
shouldn’t exist!” 8

Peculiar indeed it was, but I am

afraid the exotic or quixotic
quantum physics involved is
outside my journalistic
wheelhouse.

One observation, though, and that is that the black holes were estimated to
be different sizes. The smaller was measured at 66 solar masses, and the
larger at 85. They merged into one stupendous black hole measuring 142
solar masses. It was called the heaviest black hole measured to date. 9 10

Coming back to the crop circle.

You may think that a team of astronomy geeks went out after the LIGO
announcement and made a crop circle the next day, but astronomers really
didn’t know what they were seeing on May 21. It could have been a black
hole merger, a false alarm, or some other kind of cosmic explosion that
generated gravitational waves.

It was far too early for anyone to know

for sure what happened at LIGO. The
crop circle appeared in a village called
Norridge Wood, population of about
15,000. Only one person explored the
site, on foot right then and there, and it
all happened in a field of barley. 11

I tried to locate the farmer, but, so far, to

no avail.
Norridge Wood, near Warminster, U.K.

Scholarly articles were published a few

months later on whether or not the merger was a “false alarm” In
September, an article came forward boasting over 50 authors concluding
this was not a false alarm, but the real deal. 12

“After more than a year studying this atypical new signal, scientists think they know what
caused the heftiest black-hole merger seen to date.” 13 14

So if you are insisting that someone heard about the merger on May 21 and
quickly gathered a team to go out and make a crop circle on May 22, good
luck to you. No one knew then what they were seeing, and, any review of
the literature shows that this is quite obvious.

First Impressions

My first impression was that it was “roughly similar” to a black hole merger,
but upon closer examination of the crop circle I noticed an important detail:
the left and right circles seemed to “penetrate” the inner circle.
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See how the

circle penetrates
the inner circle

That suggested to me movement or a “breach” of once circle by another.

Here is a closer look:
 Left breach and
right breach

That suggested movement to me. Each of the smaller circles was infringing on
the perimeter of the larger circle

If you grant this initial impression, it intimates two bodies moving toward the
center. I’ve indicated that with arrows.

What I mean is this:

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If you will entertain that thought, then we have two bodies moving into a
merger, which is the third larger circle in the center of the crop circle.

That is a pretty close pictographic description of what happened in reality

on the previous day as two black holes met and merged into one gigantic,
larger black hole.

But there is another observation, and it has to do with size.

If you measure the size of the two outer circles and compare them to the
larger inner circle, the inner circle is 84 percent larger. I’m speaking of this
comparison:

This inner circle is 84% wider than these two

outer circles

 Reality vs. the crop circle

Out there in the real world of the cosmos, if we average the two black holes,
one of 66 and the other of 85, their average is 75.5 solar masses, and if we
then compare it with the final “titanic” sized black hole of 142 solar masses,
that is an 88% increase in size.

The crop circle is showing us a large center circle 84% larger than the
smaller outside circles. The astronomers are saying that the new black hole
was 88% larger than the average of the earlier black holes

Kind of close don’t you

think considering this
event was 7 billion light
years away?

Maybe just a coincidence,

but if you look at the
astronomical charts I
showed earlier they show a
“range” in size from their
estimates.

So, if our crop circle measurements seem slightly imprecise, maybe the final
black hole is only 84% larger than the two black holes that merged to make
it. Conversely, if aliens, hooligans, or whoever made this crop circle, they
were off by 4 percent in estimating the size of the final merged product.

The final problem to decode: the central circle

We still haven’t explained one element of the crop circle, and that is the
very central circle. It is not the same size as any of the other circles in the
crop circle. So what is it?

Black holes are usually associated with a stream or jet of plasma shooting
out from the center as in the following diagram.
The central circle of the crop circle would, by default, then have to be some
kind of jet or plasma stream shooting out into space. It was incumbent on
me to find out if GW190521 had any kind of jet associated with it because I
was thinking that is what the central circle in the crop circle was referring
to.

I wrote to a number of authors who had published about this merger. My

query was if there was any kind of jet or plasma streaming from the merger.
One astrophysicist said “Jerry: no jet, but a potential optical counterpart
was observed. He sent me a link. 17

I tried to decipher what that meant, ‘an optical counterpart,’ and I quote
from the article-link he sent, “The electromagnetic flare is consistent with
expectations for a kicked binary black hole merger in the accretion disk of
an active galactic nucleus.” 18

In other words, it does appear that there was an “electromagnetic flare”

from this merger.

Ah ha! We are on our way to decoding this central circle.

I wrote to a second astrophysicist who also published on GW190521. He
said it “did show evidence of correlated signals coincident with the
gravitational wave signature.”

I take that to mean, yes there was at least some flash of light.

This would explain the central

circle of the crop circle as a beam
or flash of light emanating from
the center.

If you don’t know what I am doing

here, I am trying to find a reason
or meaning to the inner circle of
this crop circle as you see the
arrows are pointing.
What is this central circle? Is it a jet, beam or flare?
Was this a beam or flash of
plasma streaming out of the black
hole? The graphic to the right attempts to
make that clarification.

Astronomer Chris Ready answered my

question most clearly. He said that 34 days
after the black hole merger a gigantic flare was
noted coming streaming from the newly
formed black hole. He theorized how it might
have come to be. That physics is too gnarly for me to describe, but he said
the flare was totally gigantic.

Thus we know from 3 sources that a huge flare did emerge from this black
hole, and so we seem to have an explanation for the central ball in this crop
circle—and that was my the last remaining loose end.

So, let us put it all together. This is how far we have come. Here is a
summary graphic of everything we are theorizing about this crop circle:


In other words, the similarities between the crop circle and reality, or
between the crop circle and GW190521, are actually amazing. Here is a
verbal summary of that:

• In reality, two black holes merged on May 21, 2020. In the crop
circle, the next day, we see two black holes penetrating a barrier and
merging.

• In reality, the new black hole is 142 solar masses, which is 88% larger
than the median width of the two prior black holes. In the crop circle,
the new central circle is 84% larger than the two little circles on the
outskirts of the crop circle. Close indeed.

• In reality, with GW190521 there was an electromagnetic “flare” or

flash 34 days after the merger, and the crop circle the central circle
represents this electromagnetic flare.

Why this black hole is so significant?

Yes, humanity has indeed come to know about 44 black hole mergers, but
this one was very special. First, it was the largest intermediate black hole
merger ever seen, so for that reason alone, it merits our attention.

But it has more eccentricities than that.

If one black hole was 66 solar masses and the other 85, then the new black
hole should have been 151 solar masses, but it was only 142. What happened to
the missing 9 solar masses? Astrophysicists obsessed over the missing 9 solar
masses.

Dr. Ready explains that Einstein’s E= mc2 comes into play. Mass converts
to energy so 9 solar masses disappeared as energy, which, to Ready, is more
massive a release of energy in one-tenth of a second “than the most
luminous quasar in the entire universe will give off in 72 days” 19

So, by no stretch of the imagination is this just a run-of-the-mill black hole

merger. It is unique, gigantic, or “titanic” as described in astrophysics
literature.

The merger was a “shudder” in the universe sending gravitational waves

out7 billion light years to our little LIGO observatory, which picked them
up. And one of our conclusions in studying this event was that Einstein was
right, matter does convert to energy as those 9 solar masses disappeared into
an energy burst as big as anything we know.

There are other elements that take us far beyond a layman’s grasp of this
subject. For example, one article argues that this black hole merger might
provide clues to the long sought after search for dark matter. In an article
entitled “Black Holes or Boson Stars: The Mystery of GW190521” the
author argues,

“Stellar models suggested that a black hole of that size should not
exist which led astronomers to look for other explanations of the
data, and one of the most exotic hypotheses to date could even
help us to find out more about dark matter.”20

To add in even more complexity, one author explores “pair instability,” a

phenomenon known to occur with gigantic supernovas.21
So, clearly, we must conclude that GW190521 was a major celestial event

And can we really ignore that a crop circle appeared the next day with a
very close description of these events in a barley field?

Astronomers and NASA artists made some pictorial representations of this

black hole merger. Here are two:

Nice job, but someone made a crop

circle representation the very next day
which not only pictures the original
black holes, but also the final result, the
merged black hole, with the central
flare bursting forth with an unheard-of
blast of energy 34 days after the
merger.

So who made it?

I think you have only two choices—that is, the intelligent, rational, and
open-minded person to whom I am writing—has only two choices.

The first is to dismiss this crop circle altogether and to say it has nothing to
do with a black hole merger. The fact that it occurred in a field of barley 24
hours after the black hole merger was nothing other than sheer coincidence.
This is just a design made by bored vandals in a village in England called
Norridge Woods which is a potpourri of circles with no connection to
anything. Just a design made by vandals in a farmer’s field. A joke. A
prank. Nothing more. Period. End of story.

Frankly, I think that is an intelligent and rational possibility. I actually do.

I only became interested in this crop circle after I read a 2022 article on the
mystery of GW190521, and I wondered if there was a crop circle made
about that time. I was astonished to find one that happened the next day,
so that is how I began my research. But frankly, the idea it could all be
coincidental is worthy of merit. Since it happened 3 years, ago I had a hard
time finding the farmer or anyone who might have shed light on whether
humans made it, whether there were any witnesses, whether anyone was
prosecuted for trespass or vandalism, whether there were footprints, barking
dogs, etc.

I usually write to the underground crop circle makers that I know, but again
I didn’t come up with anything.

So, yes, there is a distinct possibility it was a hooligan’s doodle made

coincidentally the day after a major celestial event which the hooligan and
his team of vandals had no knowledge of. What we are doing, in other
words, is nothing more than projecting meaning into an otherwise
meaningless ambiguous stimulus.

The alien hypothesis

The other possibility, of course, is much more extreme and simultaneously

inescapable. If you grant that this crop circle interpretation is correct, namely
that two circular bodies, left and right, merged into a central circle 84
percent larger than the left and right circles, and that it pictured a merger of
two black holes into the largest intermediate black hole ever discovered—
and on top of that it showed a central circle depicting a “flash” emanating
from the center that was a bigger blast than the biggest quasar known—well
there is only one conclusion you can come to; it was made by an alien
intelligence.

Why?

Simple!
No human being knew there would be a flash of that magnitude for another 34 days.
That flash did not happen until over a month later. How in God’s name
could a human crop circle maker have known that a flash was coming in a
month?

Sorry.

Only one conclusion here. If this crop circle interpretation is correct: It

wasn’t made by any human beings!

Translation

In my book Messages from the Gods: on the extraterrestrial origin of crop circles, I
attempt to translate the message of the crop circle into English. In that
book, 43 crop circles of extraterrestrial origin were translated. Most are
warnings or purely pedagogical advisories. This one I think falls into the
pedagogical advisory space.

Here it is, then, in English from our extraterrestrial brethren, a message to

humanity:

“Twenty-four hours ago on your clocks, an important cosmic event occurred with
the merger of two black holes into a larger black hole. This is the largest such
event your species has encountered. By studying it, you will learn more pair
instability, gravity, gravitational waves, and what you currently refer to as ‘dark
matter.”

That seems a fair interpretation of our discussion.

Thank you E.T.

I’ll do my best to pass on the message.

Jerry Kroth, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor Emeritus from Santa Clara University in
California. He can be reached through his website, collectivepsych.com
Endnotes
Acknowledgments: The Crop Circle Connector, Mark Fussell and Stuart Dyke, The
Hampshire Flyer, Nick Bull, Drones and RC Flight

1 https://www.ligo.org/detections/GW190521.php
2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIsGM2xkjHg

3 Norridge Wood, near Warminster, Wiltshire crop circle May 22, 2019,
http://cropcircleconnector.com/2019/NorridgeWood/NorridgeWood2019a.html
4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIsGM2xkjHg

5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIsGM2xkjHg
6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW190521
7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIsGM2xkjHg

8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpbmi8oPipY
9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpbmi8oPipY
10 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101102
11 http://cropcircleconnector.com/2019/NorridgeWood/fieldreports.html
12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDkTtZJaULw
13 https://iit-techambit.in/an-enigmatic-black-hole-collision/
14 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32955328/
15 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32955328/
16 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32955328/
17 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.251102
18 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.251102
19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIsGM2xkjHg
20 https://spaceaustralia.com/feature/black-holes-or-boson-stars-mystery-gw190521
21 https://cplberry.com/tag/pair-instability-supernova/