Scientists have long been aware of the existence of celestial entities of such gravitational intensity that no light can escape their perimeters. Such entities are called black holes. It’s furthermore been conjectured that it is the norm for such black holes to sit at the midpoint of every outsize galaxy.
Data has revealed, however, that sometimes when galaxies merge a black hole that would otherwise be centrally located is offset and never resettles at the midpoint of the newly joined galaxy. When this happens the hole becomes what scientists call a wandering black hole.
A Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics, a research team used a simulation device called a Romulus to calculate that as many as a tenth of black holes may actually qualify as wandering holes. It was further deemed that galaxies of a size similar to the Milky Way may have as many as a dozen wandering black holes. The Harvard study was entitled “Origins and Demographics of Wandering Black Holes.”
Key Takeaways:
- It’s been proposed by scientists that enormous black holes are the norm within every giant-sized galaxy.
- Sometimes, however, one galaxy can join a second galaxy, resulting in the normally centrally located black hole being offset from its normal locality.
- It can happen that the deposed hole does not in fact settle into the new center created by the conjoined galaxies but instead moves and becomes a sort of wandering entity.
“The next step for the team is to explore the the observational signatures of these wandering black holes in greater detail.”
References:
- Earth Mystery News (Website)
- V101 Science (YouTube Channel)
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