Sentences with phrase «as the black holes drew»
As the black holes drew near in a deepening pit of spacetime, they also churned up that fabric, emitting gravitational radiation (or gravity waves, as scientists often call them).
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«It's really hard to torque a black hole around by a large amount without having something as massive as another black hole slam into it,» says astrophysicist Scott Hughes of the University of California, Santa Barbara, co-author of a forthcoming independent analysis that draws similar conclusions.
The massive black hole shown at left in this drawing is able to rapidly grow as intense radiation from a galaxy nearby shuts down star - formation in its host galaxy.
The inaugural 1916 meeting drew Albert Einstein who had published a year earlier his general theory of relativity that included the prediction that the universe's colliding black holes and exploding stars distorted space time, something known as gravitational waves.
Cosmic jets, most astronomers believe, arise when a massive object, such as a neutron star or a black hole, draws in material.
The idea that the tremendous amounts of energy released by quasars results from material being drawn into a black hole at the center of a galaxy quickly rose as the leading explanation.
The paper outlines how interactions between particles emitted by a black hole can reveal information about what lies within, such as characteristics of the object that formed the black hole to begin with, and characteristics of the matter and energy drawn inside.