This article was written by Edward Hsiang Much like quicksand and lava, black holes might’ve been something you thought would be much more relevant to your life as a kid. Bordering on fantasy, these ever-consuming voids certainly feel more like something we see in the latest Sci-Fi thriller than hear about in the news.  Just last month however, scientists have reported the detected collision of two such colossal entities on an unprecedented scale. In the mid 1980’s Dr. Bernard Schutz, a physicist at the University of Cardiff, UK, came up with a novel solution to a long standing astronomy problem of “how to measure the distance between earth and other…