What Happened
Many of the early exoplanet discoveries were exciting on their own, confirming that there really were strange new worlds out in the Universe.
Why It Matters
But over time, our focus has shifted more toward numbers, as we began using the frequency of objects like super-Earths and mini-Neptunes to learn more about how planets form.
Key Details
- With four gravitational wave detectors now having generated years of data, we may be on the verge of seeing something similar happen with black hole mergers.
- On Wednesday, researchers released an analysis suggesting that there's a "mass gap" in the population of black holes that we've detected so far.
- And that gap supports the idea that some stars are so massive that they die in something called a pair-instability supernova, which is so violent that it leaves nothing but debris behind.
- That's not stable Black holes result from the collapse of a star's core during a supernova.
Background Context
Many of the early exoplanet discoveries were exciting on their own, confirming that there really were strange new worlds out in the Universe. But over time, our focus has shifted more toward numbers, as we began using the frequency of objects like super-Earths and mini-Neptunes to learn more about how planets form. With four gravitational wave detectors now having generated years of data, we may be on the verge of seeing something similar happen with black hole mergers. On Wednesday, researchers released an analysis suggesting that there's a "mass gap" in the population of black holes that we've detected so far. And that gap supports the idea that some stars are so massive that they die in s
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Source: Ars Technica – All content – Original Link
Source: Ars Technica – All content
