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Small black holes may play ‘hide-and-seek’ with elusive supermassive black hole pairs

When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Drawing of a supermassive black hole binary. | Source: NASA Binary pairings of small black holes could be used by astronomers in a cosmic game of hide-and-seek to hunt for much larger, but more elusive, supermassive black hole binaries.… Read More »

Cracking! Some binary black holes may orbit each other in egg-shaped orbits

Black hole week ends today (May 10), and there’s no better way to mark the occasion than with “egg-casual” black hole science. Using gravitational wave measurements made by the US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo and KAGRA detectors in Italy and Japan, scientists found that the orbits of some binary black… Read More »