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Colliding Black Holes Leave Afterglow Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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New calculations by scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland suggest that recently merged black holes give off an infrared glow for up to 100,000 years. The persistent auras originate from the thick clouds of gas and dust, called accretion discs, which surround and sustain the black holes.
According to the calculations, when two black holes collide, the orbits of material in the disks become disturbed, causing particles to crash into... (source: space.newscientist.com)
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