WASHINGTON: Astronomers claim that a flashing from the depths of space may prove a theory that black holes located in center of the two galaxies will end up as gravitationally locked ‘twins’ in close orbit around each other.
The evidence of such duo of black holes may be the recent detection of a pulsing quasar, say the astronomers at the University of Maryland.
“We believe we have observed two supermassive black holes in closer proximity than ever before,” says astronomy Professor Suvi Gezari, one author of a study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The black hole duo is possibly so close together they are also emitting gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, he adds.
When black holes feast on surrounding matter, that matter is heated and accelerated to the point where it emits massive amounts of energy, creating examples of some of the brightest energy sources in the galaxy, known as quasars.
Scientists assume that only when a pair of black holes is orbiting in a binary pairing, that consumption of matter will be in a cycle, causing brightening and periodic dimming of the quasar they’ve created.
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