Sentences with phrase «black hole mergers before»

We'll need to see more black hole mergers before we can tell, though — the signal doesn't give a clear answer either way.

LIGO researchers spotted a second black hole merger before ending the observation run on 12 January.

Not exact matches

So if we see black hole merger events before stars existed, then we'll know that those black holes are not of stellar origin.»

The detected signal comes from the last 27 orbits of the black holes before their merger.

He was also working on other LIGO papers at the time, including one about an earlier detection of a black - hole merger which now needed to be published before it could be eclipsed by the neutron - star merger announcement.

«This is a tantalizing discovery with a low chance of being a false alarm, but before we can start rewriting the textbooks, we'll need to see more bursts associated with gravitational waves from black hole mergers,» study lead author Valerie Connaughton, of the National Space, Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said in a statement.

An interesting theory from early 2015, before the first black hole merger signal had been detected, drafts a compelling scenario, formulated by Madrid professor Juan Garcia - Bellido and postdoc Sebastien Clesse from RWTH Aachen University: maybe the universe is crowded with black holes of various sizes, remnants of large density fluctuations during the so - called inflation phase of the Big Bang.

The research team led by Satoru Iguchi, Associate Professor of NAOJ, succeeded in observing a very close binary black hole in the center of 3C66B (a giant elliptical galaxy within the cluster A347) just before its black hole merger.

However, the team say the current findings should help scientists better understand what happens before a black hole merger and how galaxies evolve.