Sentences with phrase «few black hole mergers»

Not exact matches

That's much too big for them to have been built up through the slow mergers of small black holes formed in the conventional way, from collapsed stars a few dozen times the mass of the sun.

The two US detectors, one in Washington and the other in Louisiana, saw the signal of a black hole merger just a few milliseconds apart, but with just two detectors the location of the source couldn't be pinned down.

According to Loeb, the black hole that Condon's group think they have identified probably had its galaxy shredded, because it held on to a few stars — if it had been in a black hole merger or a three - body scuffle, it would have lost everything.

Finding many black hole mergers in the next few years will be a strong indicator that black holes are not few and far between but many and close together.

For example, the team found that a merger of two black holes with significantly unequal masses would be a strong indication that the stars formed almost entirely from hydrogen and helium — called low - metallicity stars — with other elements contributing fewer than 0.1 percent of stellar matter (for comparison, this fraction is about 2 percent in our Sun).