New Mission Will Help to Discover Hundreds of Black Holes
Next year, scientists plan to switch on two detectors in hopes of picking up on the faint ripples (known as gravitational waves) created by the collision of black holes millions of years ago, Cardiff University reported. The research team has built a theoretical model that works to predict these gravitational waves that are expected to be picked up by the detectors.
“The rapid spinning of black holes will cause the orbits to wobble, just like the last wobbles of a spinning top before it falls over. These wobbles can make the black holes trace out wild paths around each other, leading to extremely complicated gravitational-wave signals. Our model aims to predict this [behavior] and help scientists find the signals in the detector data,” said Mark Hannam from the School of Physics and Astronomy.
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