Wednesday 1 May 2024

Black hole 'traffic jams' are forcing cosmic monsters to collide, new study finds

 


Image courtesy of ESO/M. Kornmesser.

The galaxy is filled with wonders. Some of them belong to Black Holes. New research points to the fact that black hole collisions are almost inevitable.

The researchers say that supermassive “black holes, enormous voids that swirl around everything in the galaxies themselves. This swirly behaviour influences things like the disks of matter the galactic titan feasts on, stars and their systems — and, fascinatingly, even other black holes, albeit smaller, stellar mass ones.”

Source:

Robert Lea, 2024, Black hole 'traffic jams' are forcing cosmic monsters to collide, new study finds | Live Science 29. April.