Chaotic Triple Drama: Black Hole Billiards in the Centers of Galaxies - SciTechDaily

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution, now published in Nature, involves a chaotic tri…

Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole. Credit: J. Samsing/Niels Bohr Institute Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why on… [+6979 chars]

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