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Milky Way Houses Up To 100 Million Black Holes
Posted on 8/9/17 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 8/9/17 at 8:48 pm
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Thanks to a comprehensive study by a trio of researchers from UC Irvine, the first accurate estimates of the number of black holes found in Milky Way-like galaxy have now been made. Not only is our galaxy filled with hundreds of billions of stars, but we also are home to up to 100 million black holes.
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Prior to LIGO, it wasn't expected that black holes of ~30 solar masses would inspiral and merge into one another, yet LIGO has taught us that these mergers are likely ubiquitous. With so many black holes predicted by this latest work, it tells us that what LIGO's seen so far likely isn't particularly special or out-of-the-ordinary. Coauthor Manoj Kaplinghat noted that, with so many black holes, only a small fraction need to be in merger-ready orbits to explain the LIGO signals. "We show that only 0.1 to 1 percent of the black holes formed have to merge to explain what LIGO saw," Kaplinghat said.
Holy crap, that's only our galaxy.
Thanks to a comprehensive study by a trio of researchers from UC Irvine, the first accurate estimates of the number of black holes found in Milky Way-like galaxy have now been made. Not only is our galaxy filled with hundreds of billions of stars, but we also are home to up to 100 million black holes.
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Prior to LIGO, it wasn't expected that black holes of ~30 solar masses would inspiral and merge into one another, yet LIGO has taught us that these mergers are likely ubiquitous. With so many black holes predicted by this latest work, it tells us that what LIGO's seen so far likely isn't particularly special or out-of-the-ordinary. Coauthor Manoj Kaplinghat noted that, with so many black holes, only a small fraction need to be in merger-ready orbits to explain the LIGO signals. "We show that only 0.1 to 1 percent of the black holes formed have to merge to explain what LIGO saw," Kaplinghat said.
Holy crap, that's only our galaxy.
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Posted on 8/9/17 at 8:48 pm to DavidTheGnome
how many are in NBR?
Posted on 8/9/17 at 8:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
Racist?
Posted on 8/9/17 at 8:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
I'm a Snickers man, myself
Posted on 8/9/17 at 8:59 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:
accurate estimates
AKA "we pulled yet another number directly out our asses"
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:00 pm to DavidTheGnome
Einstein was talking about the theoretics of LIGO 100 years ago.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:05 pm to DavidTheGnome
Who gives a shite if we aren't even gonna field a Top 5 recruiting class this yr
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:05 pm to DavidTheGnome
And water is wet, so what?
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:09 pm to DavidTheGnome
I wonder which one Maximilian is in?
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:09 pm to DavidTheGnome
I'm just looking for 1 to check off a bucket list
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:15 pm to DavidTheGnome
And there are countless of galaxies making up super clusters. The amount of matter is almost hard to imagine.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:22 pm to DavidTheGnome
Space is so mind boggling.
Read this thread, then go read the thread about 8-5 baws daily routines.
It makes you think, why the frick are we wasting our time with this dumb bullshite we do day to day when we aren't even a spec on the map? What a waste of time.
Reading about space is therapeutic for me. Reminds me how little we matter.
Read this thread, then go read the thread about 8-5 baws daily routines.
It makes you think, why the frick are we wasting our time with this dumb bullshite we do day to day when we aren't even a spec on the map? What a waste of time.
Reading about space is therapeutic for me. Reminds me how little we matter.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:23 pm to DavidTheGnome
there goes the galaxy
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:33 pm to DavidTheGnome
I get this is fancy and whatnot but don't we have bigger fish to fry, like cities flooding, ooc crime rates, and a couple trillion missing from the coffers that nobody seems to care about. I mean we have a looney in NK with nukes, men becoming women with the scrape of a knife, and there are still people in cali not making a livable wage. Yet we have the time and resources to predict the black holes in the galaxy with a minuscule bit of certainty that cost us millions of dollars. I'd rather spend our money on midget tossing competitions and building some new badass pyramids than this.
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