Sentences with phrase «merging black holes at the centers»

Her current research in astronomy involves the use of adaptive optics to study merging black holes at the centers of galaxies.

Not exact matches

But if you have clusters of black holes at the centers of galaxies, there are mechanisms by which some could rapidly grow, form binaries and merge with each other.»

Now a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, suggests that this interpretation aligns with our knowledge of cosmic infrared and X-ray background glows and may explain the unexpectedly high masses of merging black holes detected last year.

Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of galaxies, and when those galaxies collide, eventually their supermassive black holes will first slowly circle each other spiraling inward like water down a drain, then eventually merge as well.

Chiara Mingarelli is a gravitational - wave astrophysicist who is looking to understand how supermassive black holes in the centers of massive galaxies merge, and if they merge at all.

The imbalance of forces would have ejected the merged black hole from the center at speeds of millions of miles an hour, resulting in the rarity of a galaxy without a central black hole.