Gravitation

Crédits: Collaboration PTA

Massive black holes binaries as probes of the Universe.

Massive black holes are located in the centre of all massive galaxies. During the encounter of galaxies those black holes pair and, after some hardening period, become sources of gravitational waves (GWs).  Binaries at the early stage of inspiral emit almost monochromatic GWs and the population of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) is the main source for the Pulsar Timing Array (PTA).  In PTA we use radio emission from the millisecond pulsars to detect GWs in the nano-Hz frequency band.
Vue du bras nord de Virgo. @ EGO/VIRGO
LIGO et Virgo font de premières observations de systèmes binaires « mixtes ».
 
Simulation numérique d’une fusion de la binaire de trous noirs GW150914
 

 

 

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