Sentences with phrase «around the black hole less»

The new images home in on a region around the black hole less than 4.2 light - years across — smaller than the distance between the sun and its nearest star, says Roopesh

Not exact matches

But the black holes in the Whirlpool have temperatures of less than 4 million degrees Celsius, indicating that the clouds of hot gas swirling around them are bigger and more spread out.

There maybe millions of such black holes floating around our own galaxy, eachfive or 10 times as massive as our sun and roughly 50 miles around, each spinning more or less furiously — once a millisecond or so would bepossible.

At first, Sagittarius A-star appeared much fainter than expected, and astrophysicists concluded that there must be less material around the black hole than they previously thought.

Less than 1 % of the hot gas around this black hole will actually «fall» into it.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

This new image depicts the inner region of the jets around the black hole that is less than 4.2 light - years across, less than the distance between our Sun, Sol, and its closest known stellar neighbors, Alpha Centauri 3.