Researchers at the IAC have discovered the fast 'fall' of two stars on black holes

21/11/2013

Thanks to the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), a group of researchers at the IAC leaded by the Severo Ochoa postdoc Jonay I. González Hernández, have demonstrated that two companion stars orbiting black holes are indeed falling onto these black holes, but the spiral-in of these companion stars is faster than what the theory predicts. The work has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. >>Read more