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RIT Scientists confirm a Highly Eccentric Black Hole Merger for the First Time

Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide. Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)

For the first time, scientists believe they have detected a merger of two black holes with eccentric orbits. According to a paper published in Nature Astronomy by researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation and the University of Florida, this can help explain how some of the black hole mergers detected by LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration are much heavier than previously thought possible.

Eccentric orbits are a sign that black holes could be repeatedly gobbling up others during chance encounters in areas densely populated with black holes such as galactic nucle...

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