Articles for tag: Astronomy, astrophysics, black hole merger, Black Holes

an artist's impression of a black hole in the sky

What Happens When Two Black Holes Collide Inside a Galaxy?

Suhail Ahmed

  Picture a city of a trillion stars holding its breath. Deep in the core, two invisible heavyweights drag spacetime itself into a tightening spiral, their dance silent yet ferociously bright in everything but sound. Astronomers have chased this mystery for decades, piecing together clues from flickering quasars, slingshotted stars, and ripples that make galaxies ...