Being able to study things like black
hole mergers through gravity will shed light on some of the «darkest yet most energetic events in our universe,» said Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, in an American Physical Society press release.
Not exact matches
They have improved their balance sheets, filled product
holes through mergers and acquisitions and are now spending less on research and development.
The likely scenario in which this could have happened is if the galaxy hosting the black
hole experienced
mergers or collisions with other galaxies
through its evolutionary history.
That's because no one knows whether such supergiants grow from scratch within star - forming regions, or whether, like supermassive black
holes and galaxies, they reach their enormous mass
through mergers.
In a new study, the scientists show their theoretical predictions last year were correct: The historic
merger of two massive black
holes detected Sept. 14, 2015, could easily have been formed
through dynamic interactions in the star - dense core of an old globular cluster.
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.
These
mergers produce shock waves, which propagate
through the clusters, reaccelerating particles previously accelerated by supermassive black
holes in the galactic nuclei.
If galaxies that have never been
through a
merger, like NGC 4178 — detectable by their lack of stellar bulges — have their own central black
holes, their properties could help tell the story.
«Some supermassive black
holes spin at more than 90 % of the speed of light, which suggests that they gained their mass
through major galactic
mergers.»
The scientists combed
through masses of simulated black
hole data until they found the faint but unambiguous sound of black
hole mergers.
A galactic bulge is thought to evolve
through numerous
mergers and collisions with other galaxies which would bring a large amount of interstellar materials (* 2) into a galactic center and further the evolution of a black
hole.