Not exact matches
NASA's Fermi space telescope has seen signs of such photons
around the supermassive
black hole at the centre of the Milky Way,
where dark matter is expected to cluster.
«Imagine throwing a thousand
black holes into a mosh pit
where they kick each other
around like crazy,» Rasio says.
The
black holes that we can observe directly through their radiant emission are mostly in a configuration
where gas swirls
around the
black hole in the form of an accretion disk and that accretion disk — most of the mass is going to be in an ionized form, and then some of that gas gets expelled from the environment
around the
black hole, while it is still outside the
black hole, it gets squirted out in the form of an outflow, a wind like the solar wind and then [a] much faster, collimated outflow called a jet.
MATISSE will contribute to several fundamental research areas in astronomy, focusing in particular on the inner regions of discs
around young stars
where planets are forming, the study of stars at different stages of their lives, and the surroundings of supermassive
black holes at the centres of galaxies.
It turned out that the observed width of the jet was significantly wider than what was expected in the currently favoured models
where the jet is launched from the
black hole's ergosphere — an area of space right next to a spinning
black hole where space itself is dragged to a circling motion
around the
hole», explains Professor Gabriele Giovannini from Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, the lead author of the paper published in Nature Astronomy yesterday.
The bloated galaxy is a member of an unusual class of galaxies with a diffuse core filled with a fog of starlight
where there would normally be a concentrated peak of light
around a central
black hole.
So he sets them
around his campfire, but «they sat there and did not stir, and the fire caught their clothes...» Soon has fearlessness has led him to take a king's challenge of spending three nights in a haunted castle,
where he's assaulted by
black cats and dogs «from every
hole and corner,» all carrying red hot chains.