UC Irvine astronomers make a hundred million discoveries — black holes
Recent UCI Physics & Astronomy Ph.D. recipient Dr. Oliver Elbert had his work, available on the arXiv, with Prof. James Bullock and Prof. Manoj Kaplinghat covered in Forbes, Phys.Org, The Universe Today, and the OC Register:
“Astronomers from UC Irvine have concluded that as many as 100 million black holes exist in our galaxy – a tally far more than previously believed and shocking even to the three researchers… The trio’s discovery grows out of the 2015 detection of evidence showing that two black holes, each the size of 30 suns, collided to form a single one some 1.3 billion years ago. In response to that groundbreaking news — which confirmed a key part of Einstein’s theory of relativity — the three UCI astronomers launched their study to determine how many black holes there are in the Milky Way.”