New insight found in black hole collisions
New insight found in black hole collisions
February 26, 2015 | ScienceBlog.com
New research by an astrophysicist at The University of Texas at Dallas provides revelations about the most energetic event in the universe — the merging of two spinning, orbiting black holes into a much larger black hole.
The work by Dr. Michael Kesden, assistant professor of physics at UT Dallas, and his colleagues provides for the first time solutions to decades-old equations that describe conditions as two black holes in a binary system orbit one another and spiral in toward collision.
The research is available online and in the Feb. 27 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
Kesden, who this month was selected as a 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, said the solutions should significantly impact not only the study of black holes, but also the search for gravitational waves in the cosmos. Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that two massive objects orbiting in a binary system should move closer together as the system emits a type of radiation called gravitational waves.
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