Sentences with phrase «destroyed by a black hole»

In 2004 Stephen Hawking conceded a bet in the face of «proof» that information is not destroyed by the black hole.

What happens to the information in matter destroyed by a black hole?

Not exact matches

New studies suggest lonely planets flying through intergalactic space were formed by star - destroying supermassive black holes.

Some unlucky ones may happen to pass too close to the central black hole, where they are destroyed and eventually swallowed by the black hole.

You can shred your tax returns, but you shouldn't be able to destroy information by tossing it into a black hole.

A black hole, it seems, either destroys information in violation of quantum mechanics or it is enveloped by a blazing firewall, defying Einstein's general relativity.

Until recently, it was not clear what prevented the delicate filaments from being destroyed by competing gravitational forces, but Hubble Space Telescope images suggest they are supported by magnetic fields generated near the galaxy's central black hole.

According to Neves, a black hole is not defined by singularity, but rather by an event horizon, a membrane that indicates the point of no return from which nothing escapes the inexorable destiny of being swallowed up and destroyed by the singularity.

As we noted, the LHC will not destroy the world and as George Musser wrote to me after we recorded the interview, «I said something to the effect that scientists had stocked [stoked] concerns about black holes by saying the LHC would create particles not seen since the big bang, but those particles have been seen since the big bang, namely in natural processes such as cosmic ray collisions; therefore if black holes posed a threat, the universe would already be a goner.»

The results give important insights into what happens when a star is destroyed by a supermassive black hole, but also how newly launched jets behave in a pristine environment.

A black hole captured by a neutron star eats the star from the inside, ultimately destroying the host.

However, new work by astronomers at the University of Sheffield has discovered an incident of a star being destroyed by a supermassive black hole in a much smaller sample size — a group of just 15 galaxies.

Our results indicate that the event was probably caused by a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole as it destroyed a low - mass star,» Leloudas said in the statement Monday.

When their venture is sabotaged by eco-terrorists, a black hole that could destroy the planet opens.