Binary Black Holes
Future Gravitational Wave Observatories Could See the Earliest Black Hole Mergers in the Universe
In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves…
A Supermassive Black Hole with a Case of the Hiccups
Can binary black holes, two black holes orbiting each other, influence their respective behaviors? This is what a recent study…
Vera Rubin Will Find Binary Supermassive Black Holes. Here’s How.
When galaxies merge, we expect them to produce binary black holes (BBHs.) BBHs orbit one another closely, and when they…
Pulsars Detected the Background Gravitational Hum of the Universe. Now Can They Detect Single Mergers?
After over a decade of observations of pulsars, astronomers could finally tease out the gravitational wave background of the Universe,…
What Does it Take to Make Black Holes Collide?
In a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysical Letters, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Shortly Before They Collided, two Black Holes Tangled Spacetime up Into Knots
An international team led from Cardiff University has confirmed that black hole binaries experience precession.
NASA Releases a Simulation of 22 Known Black Hole Binary Systems
Want to take a look at some black hole binary systems? Well then NASA's got your back with this stunning…
Binary Black Holes can Unlock Another of Einstein’s Predictions
Gravitational waves from merging black holes can tell us more about a gravitational dance known as spin-orbit resonance.
Astronomers Detected a Black Hole Merger With Very Different Mass Objects
In another first, the latest gravitational wave event to be detected came from the merger of two black holes of…
14% of all the Massive Stars in the Universe are Destined to Collide as Black Holes
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity predicted that black holes would form and eventually collide. It also predicted the creation of…