Forest thinks the machine is on the verge of mimicking astrophysical phenomena such
as accretion disks of gas and dust swirling into a black hole.
As the accretion disk spins faster and its centrifugal force stops matter from falling in, a clump of gas gets thrown off the disk and up into the jet.
The discovery is the first time scientists have been able to see both a disk of material falling into a black hole, known
as an accretion disk, and a jet in a system of this kind.
Not exact matches
Eugene Chiang, an astronomer at UC Berkeley, says there is no need to speed up
accretion, so long
as the
disk is solid - rich and gas - poor.
These wild swings indicated that the material from the
accretion disk was falling onto the neutron star in fits and starts, rather than in a long and constant stream
as astronomers theorized.
Such discs, known
as quasar
accretion disks, are typically about 100 billion kilometers across, and most lay billions of light - years away.
Each time a merger occurred, material from the new galaxy got incorporated into the
accretion disk around the black hole, spinning in the same direction
as the black hole and eventually contributing to its growth.
In October 2015, astronomers watched
as a supermassive black hole in the galaxy PGC 043234 — 290 million light - years away — shredded a star, scooped it into the
accretion disk and then ate it for space lunch.
The orbiting motion of the
accretion disk can trace the «death spiral» of its matter
as it falls into the darkness of what the astrophysicists measure to be a supermassive black hole.
Cygnus X-1 was found
as part of a binary star system in which an extremely hot and bright star called a blue supergiant formed an
accretion disk around an invisible object.
As the team describes online in Nature today, it used a novel technique called x-ray reverberation mapping to analyze slight delays in the arrival time of x-rays from the event, allowing them to map out the inside edge of the
accretion disk.
Because black holes can not be observed directly, Schulze's team instead measured emissions from oxygen ions [O III] around the black hole and
accretion disk to determine the radiative efficiency; i.e. how much energy matter releases
as it falls into the black hole.
As matter from the star falls onto the black hole, an
accretion disk forms around the black hole.
The binding energy of the organic compounds will serve
as the input for kinetic Monte Carlo techniques that will be used in tandem with the dynamic compound wavelet matrix method to assess and quantify the organics» stability at conditions pertaining to the
accretion disk.
This black hole blasts out prodigious amounts of energy
as it feeds on the material in its
accretion disk.
With this, two new phenomena have been discovered: the fast flares in the early light curve seen from days 9 - 15 (which have no proposed explanation) and the optical dips seen out of eclipse from days 41 - 61 (likely caused by raised rims of the
accretion disk occulting the bright inner regions of the
disk as seen over specific orbital phases).
In some «active galaxies,» gas trapped by the black hole's gravity forms a hot
accretion disk as it spirals down.
These circumstellar
disks are common around newborn stars, and provide the raw materials for planets, which are formed
as a result of
accretion of dust and debris left over from the star's birth.
As gas from the companion star falls toward the compact star, the latter swirls round into an
accretion disk.
We speculate that this truncation of the outer
disk may be the signpost of a developing gap due to the effects of a growing protoplanet; the gap is still presumably evolving because material still resides in it,
as indicated by the silicate emission, the molecular hydrogen emission, and by the continued
accretion onto the central star (albeit at a much lower rate than typical of younger T Tauri stars).
These galactic types are all characterized by violent activity at their cores, usually explained
as arising from an
accretion disk of hot gases that surrounds a central black hole having a mass of about 1,000,000,000 Suns.
The model additionally assume constant angular velocity during the
disk accretion phase and allow for decoupling between the radiative core and the convective envelope
as soon
as the former develops.
These observation results were published
as Izumi et al. «Do Circumnuclear Dense Gas
Disks Drive Mass
Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes?»
In order to accurately model the behavior of the
accretion disk that orbits our galaxy's supermassive black hole, the researchers used a method that tracked the motion and path of individual particles — rather than one that treats the motion of plasma
as a macroscopic fluid.
As a result, some
accretion disks around supermassive black holes are incredibly bright, and can outshine all the billions of stars in their host galaxy put together.