Researchers Develop Method to Detect Closely Bound Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Physicists propose a new way to spot supermassive black hole pairs

Supermassive black holes rarely travel alone. Most large galaxies hide one at the center, and when galaxies collide, the two central black holes can end up bound together. Astronomers have seen plenty of wide pairs. The tighter ones, the kind that spiral inward and eventually merge, have been much harder to pin down. Researchers at the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) think t…

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Researchers Develop Method to Detect Closely Bound Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

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New method could reveal hidden supermassive black hole binaries

12.02.2026 - New method: Researchers at Oxford University and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in the Potsdam Science Park propose a new way to detect supermassive black hole binaries using gravitational lensing.