{"690064":{"#nid":"690064","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Angle of collision between galaxies affects the merger of supermassive black holes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EResearchers have long known that when two galaxies approach each other and merge, the supermassive black holes at their centers form a pair and are eventually expected to merge as well.\u0026nbsp; It is precisely these mergers that are considered one of the sources of the gravitational-wave background \u2014 a faint \u201chum\u201d of spacetime detected in recent years. However, the role played by the geometry of the collision in this process has remained an open question.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGraduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESena Ghobadi\u003C\/strong\u003E of the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, along with her colleagues, has developed three-dimensional dynamic models of such collisions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story appeared in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/astronomy-news\/how-tilted-orbits-impact-supermassive-black-hole-collisions\/#google_vignette\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESky \u0026amp; Telescope\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EResearchers have long known that when two galaxies approach each other and merge, the supermassive black holes at their centers form a pair and are eventually expected to merge as well.\u0026nbsp; It is precisely these mergers that are considered one of the sources of the gravitational-wave background \u2014 a faint \u201chum\u201d of spacetime detected in recent years. However, the role played by the geometry of the collision in this process has remained an open question.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGraduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESena Ghobadi\u003C\/strong\u003E of the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, along with her colleagues, has developed three-dimensional dynamic models of such collisions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story appeared in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/astronomy-news\/how-tilted-orbits-impact-supermassive-black-hole-collisions\/#google_vignette\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESky \u0026amp; Telescope\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-04-29 22:01:05","changed_gmt":"2026-04-30 14:55:57","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Universe Magazine","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/en\/angle-of-collision-between-galaxies-affects-the-merger-of-supermassive-black-holes\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192252","name":"cos-planetary"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"10881","name":"black holes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}