Using Small Black Holes To Detect Big Black Holes
An international team of astrophysicists with participation of the University of Zurich proposes a novel method to detect pairs of the biggest black holes found at the centers of galaxies by analyzing gravitational waves generated by binaries of nearby small stellar black holes.
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- When a supermassive black hole is about to eat another massive black hole, this will emit gravitational waves, which are ripples in spacetime that propagate through the Universe. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018)
