Rodriguez and colleagues used 52 detailed computer models to demonstrate how a globular cluster acts as a dominant source of binary black holes, producing hundreds of
black hole mergers over a cluster's 12 - billion - year lifetime.
It is beyond awesome that we little lumps of protoplasm squinting out at the Universe from our shaky platform in the outskirts of an insignificant galaxy can, after four decades of indefatigable effort, detect and characterize
a black hole merger over a billion light years away.
Not exact matches
Subsequently, matter from the debris of the
merger that swirls rapidly around the newly created new
black hole has been modelled as amplifying the strength of the combined magnetic field left
over by the neutron stars after their
merger over the next 11 milliseconds.
Urry will conclude with the big picture: the evolution of the universe
over the last 13 billion years, as indicated by computer simulations, and future prospects for observing
black hole growth and
mergers across the cosmos.
This latest detection originated from a
merger creating a
black hole of 49 solar masses (another «heavy»
black hole like the first one), but the
merger happened
over twice as far away than previous events.