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Cosmic Eating Machines Capture And Swallow Binary Star Partners
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:09
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“We found black holes grow enormously as a result of sucking in captured binary star partners,” says physics and astronomy Professor Ben Bromley, lead author of the study, which is set for online publication April 2 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
A study led by a University of Utah astrophysicist found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive black holes in the center of most galaxies: they repeatedly capture and swallow single stars from pairs of stars that wander too close.
“I believe this has got to be the dominant method for growing supermassive black holes,” he adds…. Rest of article with all images here:
