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Small black holes could play 'hide-and-seek' with elusive supermassive black hole pairs

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Supermassive black holes have been elusive for terrestrial gravitational wave detectors like LIGO and VIRGO in Italy and KAGRA in Japan .

The technique could, therefore, help solve the mystery of how black holes grew so fast in the early universe.

As black holes spiral around each other, gravitational waves carry away angular momentum (or spin), forcing the black holes together.

This increases the frequency of the gravitational waves, thus increasing the frequency.

The proposal could also help direct the design of future gravitational wave detectors.

The team's research was published on Monday ( August 5 ) in the journal Nature .

The proposal was published in Nature 's journal Nature on August 5 .

It was published by the University of Zurich's Lucio Mayer , a black hole theorist.