Science Groundbreaking discovery confirms existence of orbiting supermassive black holes

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For the first time ever, astronomers at The University of New Mexico say they've been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth - a discovery more than a decade in the making.

UNM Department of Physics & Astronomy graduate student Karishma Bansal is the first-author on the paper, 'Constraining the Orbit of the Supermassive Black Hole Binary 0402+379', recently published in The Astrophysical Journal. She, along with UNM Professor Greg Taylor and colleagues at Stanford, the U.S. Naval Observatory and the Gemini Observatory, have been studying the interaction between these black holes for 12 years.

"For a long time, we've been looking into space to try and find a pair of these supermassive black holes orbiting as a result of two galaxies merging," said Taylor. "Even though we've theorized that this should be happening, nobody had ever seen it until now."



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Jesus Christ first weed talk now this, I'm not ready
 
Isn't there a Black hole in every Galaxy? Galaxies form around them, Right?
 
Black holes are theorized but not measurable. We can calculate their mass but what exactly they are is still somewhat in question. So every time there is prediction based on their being black holes, and the prediction holds true via calculations, the evidence of black holes becomes stronger.
 
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Black holes are theorized but not measurable. We can calculate their mass but what exactly they are is still somewhat in question. So every time there is prediction based on their being black holes, and the prediction holds true via calculations, the evidence of black holes becomes stronger.
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I think this discovery helps with the measurements of black holes, doesn't it?
 
MarAzul said:
Isn't there a Black hole in every Galaxy? Galaxies form around them, Right?
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That's impossible to say, as there are an infinite number of galaxies and their compositions vary. In comparison to our Milky Way, yes.

Let's assume we are talking about the Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor. Instead of them moving towards each other, which is the current cosmic reality, imagine that they are orbiting one another. Not like our planets orbit the sun. The two black holes at the center of these galaxies are orbiting each other. This study is trying to measure the theoretical gravitational waves that would occur in the proposed scenario.

Black holes and Dark Matter are two scientific mysteries that I would like to see solved in my lifetime.
Also, the post above is at a Tunchi level. It's impressive. :smiley-zastava:
 
Shaboid said:
That's impossible to say
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But I just did.
It is rather difficult to imaging what holds a galaxy together but for a black hole. So in that sense, the black hole is like God, you can't prove it's there, but you need it.
You need the BH to anchor the obits of Stars, and you need God to put the final touch on the creation of life. Weed won't get er done.
 
MarAzul said:
But I just did.
It is rather difficult to imaging what holds a galaxy together but for a black hole. So in that sense, the black hole is like God, you can't prove it's there, but you need it.
You need the BH to anchor the obits of Stars, and you need God to put the final touch on the creation of life. Weed won't get er done.
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Drinking before noon again?
 
Not an infinite number of galaxies, but a very very large number.
 
crandc said:
Not an infinite number of galaxies, but a very very large number.
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This reminds me of the old argument about the value of using a prime number in algorithm for even distribution of data though out a finite space.
Prime or not only comes into play when the amount of space begins to approach infinite. Which has no approach.
 
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MarAzul said:
But I just did.
It is rather difficult to imaging what holds a galaxy together but for a black hole. So in that sense, the black hole is like God, you can't prove it's there, but you need it.
You need the BH to anchor the obits of Stars, and you need God to put the final touch on the creation of life. Weed won't get er done.
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Well that is definitely one theory. I do at least agree with you that weed isn't the thing holding a galaxy together. So there's that I guess.
 
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