Sentences with phrase «hole mergers do»
While the LIGO black hole discovery marked an important milestone, black hole mergers do not emit light and are therefore invisible to telescopes.
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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's detection of this event, plus another, fainter signal that also looks like a black hole merger, means we can conclude that black hole binaries this size can and do form in nature.
Stellar motions in the core of the giant galaxy do indeed suggest that it may have experienced a black hole merger in the not - too - distant past, says Gebhardt.
One of the most important scientific consequences of detecting a black - hole merger would be confirmation that black holes really do exist — at least as the perfectly round objects made of pure, empty, warped space - time that are predicted by general relativity.
Belczynski agrees, saying that if mergers of black hole - neutron star binaries prove to be common, they must arise from systems that don't resemble Cygnus X-1.
How these black holes got so big is still a mystery: did they grow gradually from mergers of smaller black holes, coalescing when their host galaxies merged?
These mysterious strictures — tens of thousands of light - years old — did not emerge from the quasar's black hole, but are slowly orbiting their host galaxy, long after the merger was completed.