Cosmic “Blinking Lights” Could Expose Hidden Supermassive Black Hole Pairs

A new study proposes an innovative way to uncover elusive supermassive black hole binaries by tracking subtle, repeating flashes of starlight. Researchers from Oxford University and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) have outlined a new way to uncover one of the universe’s most elusive phenomena: tightly bound pairs of supermassive [...]