If this is indeed such an event, it could provide valuable
data about black hole life cycles.
And as LIGO continues to detect more collisions,
the data about black holes will keep piling up.
Not exact matches
That
data can be analyzed to answer questions
about the population as a whole, such as how two
black holes get paired up in the first place.
«Treasure hunting in archive
data reveals clues
about black holes» diet.»
Their approach uses simulations to extract information
about the
black holes» properties directly from the gravitational wave
data.
Data from these waves will test Einstein's predictions
about how fast
black holes spin and exactly what happens when they smash into neutron stars and into each other.
If further
data support this observation, it could mark the first confirmed finding of a primordial
black hole, guiding theories
about the beginnings of the universe.
«Not only will we learn
about the formation of the
black holes, but these new
data from Hubble help us connect globular clusters to galaxies, providing information on one of the most important unsolved problems in astronomy today: how galaxy structure forms in the universe,» adds Michael Rich of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Using
data from the image, researchers found that these
black holes grew in bursts, rather than by slowly accumulating matter,
about one to two billion years after the Big Bang.