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Black hole “billiards” may explain strange aspects of 2019 black hole merger

Enlarge / Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around the giant black hole. (credit: J. Samsing/Neils Bohr Institute) In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration picked up a gravitational wave signal from a black hole merger that proved to be one for the record books. Dubbed “GW190521, ” it was […]

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Dark hole “billiards” may explain unusual aspects of 2019 black gap merger

Enlarge / Illustration of a swarm regarding smaller black holes in some sort of gas disk rotating around a good giant black hole. (credit: M. Samsing/Neils Bohr Institute) Within 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration selected up a gravitational wave transmission from a black hole merging that proved to be 1 for the record books. Called “GW190521, […]

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Mysterious X-rays could be kilonova “afterglow” from 2017 neutron star merger

Enlarge / Artist’s representation of the merger of two neutron stars to form a black hole (hidden within bright bulge at center of image). The merger generates opposing, high-energy jets of material (blue) that heat up material around the stars, making it emit X-rays (reddish clouds). (credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss) Back in 2017, astronomers detected a […]

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Physicists confirm two cases of “elusive” black hole/neutron star mergers

The successful gravitational-wave detections just keep coming for the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, which has now confirmed two separate “mixed” mergers between black holes and neutron stars, sending powerful gravitational waves rippling across spacetime. Those signals were detected last year by the collaboration, just 10 days apart. A year and a half later, the events officially constitute […]

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Black hole mergers Can emit Dual chirps, Providing us clues Concerning their Silhouette

Expand / Artist’s example of a black hole merger. New simulations imply that colliding black holes ought to exude none, but several work-related”chirps,” if the crash is seen by the”equator” of the final black hole. Physicists search for combining black holes and other related cosmic events throughout the discovery of gravitational waves, by which they […]