After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
One of the most fascinating sources of gravitational waves is the collision of two black holes. It’s very difficult to learn about black holes, since they emit no light and therefore it’s ...
For instance, it has been shown that under certain conditions, the energy of colliding particles can grow unbounded, particularly in the vicinity of extremal black holes[1][5]. However ...
which form in densely populated star clusters where small black holes repeatedly collide and merge with one another," team member and University of Cambridge researcher Isobel Romero-Shaw said in ...
Simulation of two colliding supermassive black holes emitting gravitational waves that could be detected with this novel method. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data ...