Next Year we could Discover Hundreds of new Black Holes!

I’ve talked about black holes previously, and only in our own Galaxy, and only the big one in the middle, Sag A*. When I speak with the public and with kids about Black Holes, most people never really understand that there aren’t just one or two kicking around, but potentially there are as many as a Billion Black Holes in our own Galaxy! The problem is, we are not very good at finding them.  It makes sense, they give off no light, and we can only find them through indirectly measuring their effects on the surrounding environment.  We can sometimes see...