Why Black Holes Can't Merge Without Gas ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Core Scouring Dynamics and Gravitational Wave Consequences: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binary Hardening"
Star collisions can't bring supermassive black holes together — only cosmic gas drives them to merge.
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Supermassive black holes in galaxy centers draw closer like dancers in a crowd. But to start the waltz, they need more than a nudge from stars — they need a gas cloud. Otherwise, the cosmic gravitational hum would sound different. And that's a key to unlocking the growth of galaxies.
🎯 Supermassive black holes can be billions of times heavier than the Sun, but their mergers generate gravitational waves with periods of years — this 'hum' is detected by comparing the rhythm of pulsars across the entire Galaxy, which itself becomes a giant antenna.