Electromagnetic radiation from colliding black holes.
Abstract
It is shown that the collision of two black holes would result in the emission of electromagnetic radiation with a very distinctive wave form. If the gravitational radiation events reported by Weber are produced by black-hole collisions in the galactic center, then the associated electromagnetic pulses would have, in the microwave band, a maximum flux between 0.000004 and 0.00006 Jy. This flux lies at the limit of detectability with present-day radio astronomy technology.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- April 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1086/153503
- Bibcode:
- 1975ApJ...197..199T
- Keywords:
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- Black Holes (Astronomy);
- Electromagnetic Radiation;
- Galactic Nuclei;
- Gravitational Waves;
- Radio Sources (Astronomy);
- Astronomical Models;
- Interstellar Gas;
- Radio Astronomy;
- Synchrotron Radiation;
- Astrophysics