Sentences with phrase «such black hole mergers»

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

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With the black hole merger, general relativity has passed the first such test, says Rainer Weiss, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, who came up with the original idea for LIGO.

Although no such flash is expected from the merger of black holes, it would be expected in the merger of two neutron stars.

The wandering black hole (bright spot above), may be the result of one such merger.

Merritt calculated the effect of such a merger on the spin of the combined black hole.

Such mergers could give themselves away by their effect on the shapes of the black holes» parent galaxies, and in infrared and ultraviolet afterglows.

A black hole merger in a massive galaxy like M87 would yield detectable gravitational waves for 4 million years, for instance, while a more modest galaxy such as the Sombrero Galaxy would offer a 160 - million - year window.

Frustratingly for the Virgo team, the steel wires are expected to have the most impact on sensitivity to gravitational waves with lower frequencies than neutron star mergers, such as those from the mergers of black holes.

But only some of the most massive astrophysical events, such mergers of black holes and neutron stars, can produce gravitational waves strong enough to be detected on earth.

The merger of two black holes, such as the one which produced the gravitational waves discovered by the LIGO Observatory, is considered an extremely complex process that can only be simulated by the world's most powerful supercomputers.

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.

And if, García - Bellido says, any black hole in a LIGO merger proves to weigh less than our sun, this would be a «smoking gun» for primordial black holes, as such relatively minuscule black holes are thought impossible to form from stars.

Thus, Belczynski's team concludes that if Cygnus X-1 is representative of future black hole - neutron star binaries, observers seeking to detect gravitational waves should not expect to see them from mergers of such systems.

Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in space and time itself, set off by cosmic cataclysms such as the merger of two neutrons stars or black holes.

A discovery would confirm one of general relativity's most extraordinary predictions and provide an unprecedented glimpse of cataclysmic events such as black hole mergers.

But Goldstein and Racusin said that LIGO is expected to detect more merging black holes in the coming years, as many as 100 such mergers per year at the instrument's peak design sensitivity, Goldstein said.

Such events could include the mergers of lighter binary black holes, of binary neutron stars or of a black hole with a neutron star.

The fact that several such pristine galaxies turn out to have a small, still - expanding black hole at their core suggests that black holes can grow to intermediate size without mergers, but then need to pool their resources to get much bigger.

Any model that presumed a one - time cataclysm, such as a star's dying flash or the merger of stars or black holes, was out.

The galaxy mergers that bring two supermassive black holes close together are considered to be a common process in the universe, so astronomers expect that such binary pairs should be common.

Such a merger should create a rapidly spinning, black hole, possibly within 15 milliseconds.