Sentences with phrase «new black hole merger»

The new black hole merger is similar to the first one seen by LIGO.

Not exact matches

The Virgo and LIGO detectors found that the new black - hole merger occurred in a patch of sky measuring 60 square degrees.

And last week, LIGO said it had found two «triggers» in new data taken since November 2016 — which could also end up being black hole mergers.

For the first time, scientists worldwide and at Penn State University have detected both gravitational waves and light shooting toward our planet from one massively powerful event in space — the birth of a new black hole created by the merger of two neutron stars.

If the new model is correct, then such black hole mergers may occur as frequently as once a year somewhere in the Universe.

The detection of a supermassive black hole merger would offer new insights into how massive galaxies and black holes evolve, Mingarelli says.

«The gravitational waves from these supermassive black hole binary mergers are the most powerful in the universe,» says study lead author Chiara Mingarelli, a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City.

Decades from now new generations of space telescopes could capture the mergers of supermassive black holes and glimpse pulsars spiraling to doom down their maws, or see snapping «cosmic strings,» proton - thin intergalactic defects in spacetime that may have been stretched across the infant universe during an inflationary growth spurt.

When Eleonora Troja got the LIGO notification on 17 August that new gravitational waves had been detected, she dismissed it at first, assuming it was just another black - hole merger, she recalls.

Each time a merger occurred, material from the new galaxy got incorporated into the accretion disk around the black hole, spinning in the same direction as the black hole and eventually contributing to its growth.

A new study published in Nature presents one of the most complete models of matter in the universe and predicts hundreds of massive black hole mergers each year observable with the second generation of gravitational wave detectors.

This suggests LIGO — which is in the midst of upgrades to boost its sensitivity and planning for a new station in India — could eventually be detecting the chirps from black hole mergers at a rate of anywhere between once per day to once per week.

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.

A new idea could explain the merger of two black holes that led to the historic first direct detection of gravitational waves.

Findings from this and two previous discoveries of black hole mergers are providing the WSU scientists and colleagues at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) an unprecedented glimpse into the early universe and shedding new light on how binary black holes form.

A new study published in Nature presents one of the most complete models of matter in the universe and predicts hundreds of massive black hole mergers each year observable with the second generation of gravitational wave...

Subsequently, matter from the debris of the merger that swirls rapidly around the newly created new black hole has been modelled as amplifying the strength of the combined magnetic field left over by the neutron stars after their merger over the next 11 milliseconds.

Black holes in the centers of galaxies could accelerate mergers between objects and produce more ripples in space - time, also known as gravitational waves, a new study suggests.