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Ricarda Beckmann

1 articles · 3 co-authors · latest: 2026-07-05

Triple Black Hole Waltz: How Chaos Spawns Mergers

Astrophysicists embedded the behavior of three massive black holes directly into hydrodynamic simulations of galaxies. It turned out that even a slight tilt of the third body's orbit turns billions of years of waiting into a rapid merger. The chaotic dance of three gravitational wells not only solve
arXiv:2607.04121v1 · 2026-07-05