The Black Hole, the most dangerous object in the universe currently known to mankind, is again in the center of attention after new discoveries made by scientists. More precisely, scientists believe that now they can much more easily discover a black hole that is in the process of combining with another black hole by analyzing the way it moves through the universe near objects of this type.
The Black Hole is extremely difficult to detect in the universe, but scientists used the gravitational waves emitted by the supermassive ones that combined to detect such an event. Now scientists believe that monitoring some neutron stars, pulsars, that rotate at very high speeds could help to discover an event in which two black holes are in the process of colliding and combining.
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The Black Hole resulting from such an event will have huge dimensions, and the event itself will cause extreme gravitational waves that can be easily detected from a distance. Scientists still want to know in advance when such an event happens, so they look at the way pulsars move through the universe to be able to observe the moment when a black hole collides with another black hole. .
"Astronomers have been using gravitational waves to detect merging black holes for years, but they may have to rely on pulsars – rapidly spinning neutron stars – to observe supermassive black hole mergers. When black holes merge, they release enormous amounts of energy in the form of waves in the fabric of space-time. These ripples are constantly washing over the Earth, and only by using extremely sensitive detectors – and I mean extremely sensitive that we can detect.”
The supermassive black hole in the process of colliding with another similar one was never detected by scientists during that period of time when they were speeding towards each other. Scientists could only detect gravitational waves from small black holes in this process, but now the new detection method should allow the observation of supermassive ones in a process that does not happen very often in the universe.
The Black Hole remains a major object in the universe that is in the attention of all scientists, and thanks to the analyzes made by them, we could learn more about what is happening in the vast darkness.
