Supermassive black hole was kicked out

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3119, 2017, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Gravitational waves may have bounced a supermassive black hole from the center of its home galaxy. Marco Chiaberge at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland and his colleagues spotted this rogue black hole, the biggest ever detected, using the Hubble Space Telescope. They think it may be ricocheting from a powerful blast of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. As two black holes orbit one another, they should emanate gravitational waves. If the holes have different masses or rates of rotation, the waves radiate more strongly in one direction than in all the others. If the black holes smash together and merge, the resulting hole recoils in the opposite direction.