Gaia could detect free-floating black holes passing near stars in the Milky Way - Phys.org


6/28/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Andy Tomaswick

The thing with black holes is they're hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black holes simply traveling throughout the galaxy and not tied to another luminous astronomical…

The thing with black holes is they're hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black holes simply traveling through… [+4055 chars]

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