The Milky Way is Teeming with Black Holes—Expect Mergers!

The age of gravitational astronomy has been ushered in with LIGO’s detection of three black hole merger events. The first signal came from a pair of black holes, around 30 solar masses each. The discovery was revolutionary as it provided the last piece of evidence confirming Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. But it also had…Continue Reading The Milky Way is Teeming with Black Holes—Expect Mergers!