DIY gravitational waves with "BlackHoles @ Home"

[ad_1] The BlackHoles @ Home project uses highly efficient simulation grids to model binary black hole collisions on desktop computers. The black dots represent the horizons of the black holes for two black holes of different masses. Credit: Z.Etienne / WVU Researchers hoping to better interpret the data from the detection of gravitational waves generated … Read more

Other black hole mergers of LIGO-Virgo – Physics World

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M87 black hole: Why it looks different from what sci-fi thought it would

[ad_1] Black holes have been one of the biggest cosmic mysteries to fascinate and baffle scientists – not to mention spark the imaginations of sci-fi fans and filmmakers. When the Event Horizon Telescope revealed a groundbreaking image of the supermassive black hole in the galactic core of M87 on Wednesday. However, the glowing halo surrounding … Read more

3 huge questions that the black hole Image did not answer

[ad_1] An international network of radio telescopes has produced the very first close-up image of the shadow of a black hole, revealed by scientists this morning (April 10). This collaboration, called Event Horizon Telescope, has confirmed decades of predictions about the behavior of light around these dark objects and ushered in a new era of … Read more

So now we follow the lady of the black hole picture?

[ad_1] It's an exciting week for science, is not it? The second Falcon Heavy launch went off without a hitch and Israel is about to land a probe on the moon. The icing on the cake could have been the publication of the first photograph of a black hole. But for one person involved in … Read more

The first black hole photographed now has a name

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