Astrophysicists
believe black hole mergers should provide the strongest gravitational waves.
Not exact matches
Different theories exist to explain the source of these middleweights, but some astronomers
believe they grow from the
mergers of stars and
black holes in the densely packed centres of collections of stars called globular clusters.
Since most galaxies in the universe are
believed to harbor one supermassive
black hole at their center, the presence of a binary system is conclusive evidence of a galactic
merger.
«We
believe that the two supermassive
black holes in this galaxy will merge,» said Karishma Bansal, a graduate student at UNM, adding that the
merger will come at least millions of years in the future.