Sentences with phrase «bursting out of black holes»
Matter tumbling into black holes, jets bursting out of black holes and galaxies dominated by black holes are routine discoveries announced from the institute.
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Some might even suggest they may be messages from advanced alien civilisations but many experts have predicted that the bursts are emitted when jets of particles are thrown out by massive astrophysical objects, such as black holes.
A gamma ray burst is thought to emerge when jets of hot matter moving at near — light - speed shoot out along the rotational axis of the newborn black hole, beaming radiation into space like a lighthouse.
This would make a weak black hole flare up, producing a burst of gamma rays that in turn spits out cosmic rays, suggests Farrar (arxiv.org/abs/1207.3186v1).
A black hole has been spotted belching out a burst of gamma rays after gulping down part of a nearby star, something never seen before.
In rare cases, black hole births are even more spectacular, with the star firing out powerful jets of high - energy radiation as it dies — a phenomenon known as a gamma - ray burst.
In the days and weeks following the September LIGO announcement, a handful of papers appeared on the open - access science paper website arXiv.org, throwing out possible physical scenarios in which two midsize colliding black holes could produce a gamma - ray burst.