Revealed by Gravitational Waves Detected in Space
Institute for Computational Cosmology | Durham University, UK
Royal Astronomical Society | NAM2016 | 2016 June 27
Gravitational waves captured by space-based detectors could help identify the origins of supermassive black holes, according to new computer simulations of the Universe.Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Scientists led by Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology ran the huge cosmological simulations that can be used to predict the rate at which gravitational waves caused by collisions between the monster black holes might be detected.
The amplitude and frequency of these waves could reveal the initial mass of the seeds from which the first black holes grew since they were formed 13 billion years ago and provide further clues about what caused them and where they formed, the researchers said. ...
The study combined simulations from the EAGLE project – which aims to create a realistic simulation of the known Universe inside a computer – with a model to calculate gravitational wave signals. ...
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- arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1601.06156 > 21 Jan 2016