Sentences with phrase «more black hole collisions»

Catching more black hole collisions will also help map out their distribution in the universe, which is nearly impossible to do any other way.

Since that first detection, scientists have observed three more black hole collisions.

As more black hole collisions are found, researchers hope to piece together how and where these destructive duos form.

Not exact matches

For comparison, the collision detected in September created a black hole with the equivalent of 62 solar masses, blasting out 50 times more energy than all the stars in the universe combined.

Rainer Weiss, a German - born American physicist, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, took a defining step when he authored a 1972 paper on the design of a laser - based interferometer to detect the collision of black holes in outer space that would take more than a billion years to reach Earth.

And as LIGO continues to detect more collisions, the data about black holes will keep piling up.

LIGO's breakthrough discovery offers up new ways to test relativity, black hole collisions, dark energy, the first stars in the universe, and more

UCI's celestial census began more than a year and a half ago, shortly after the news that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, or LIGO, had detected ripples in the space - time continuum created by the distant collision of two black holes, each the size of 30 suns.

Light from the collision should help test Einstein's theory of general relativity, and tell us more about two huge bubbles of hot gas at the centre of the Milky Way that the black hole may have spawned.

Collisions between very energetic particles would then be much more likely than a 3 - D analysis would predict, and the creation of microscopic black holes could be within reach of the latest technology.

Comparison with the SXS simulations revealed that the signal was from the collision of two hefty black holes 29 and 36 times more massive than the sun and located 1.3 billion light - years from Earth.

But if all goes well, the team even has a prediction of where the collision is most likely to take place: In a neighborhood like the Sombrero Galaxy, where a slightly less massive supermassive black hole means the collision would happen more slowly, leaving scientists more time to spot its signature.

When a black hole is created from a supernova from a massive star or a collision between neutron stars (or a neutron star with a black hole), one of a pair of bi-polar jets of gamma rays travelling at near light - speed may be directed at the Earth (more).

In 2005, astronomers announced that GRB 050709 and GRB 050509B may be have created by collisions involving two neutron stars (more from Chandra X-Ray Observatory) and ESO), but that the presence of a second flare by GRB 050724 was more likely to have been produced by a neutron star's merger with a black hole (ESO).