ON THE CUTTING EDGE: Now They’ll Never Know How Many Holes It Takes To Fill The Albert Hall
Astrophysicists at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation used a computer model to “predict what would happen if three black holes were to orbit each other” and concluded they would “merge into one giant black hole,” reports Science.com. “The merger of three black holes would be one of the most energetic events in the universe, releasing tons of energy in the form of gravitational waves, or warps in space-time.”
Coincidentally, the day before the team was to present its simulations at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society, John A. Wheeler – the physicist who coined the term “black hole” - died of pneumonia at the age of 96.
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