Sentences with phrase «edge of a black hole»

Hawking argued that when quantum uncertainty is taken into account, the dreaded edge of a black hole, called the event horizon, becomes fuzzy.

With the combined power of a worldwide network of radio telescopes, astronomers hope to peer into the heart of our galaxy and image — for the first time — the very edges of a black hole.

Instead, I could join Hawking on fantastical adventures to the edges of black holes and inside time - traveling spacecraft; shrink down to the infinitesimal scale of subatomic particles; and journey to the birth and eventual death of the universe.

The mysterious FRBs we've been tracking for a decade could be created by clumps of dark matter particles dancing along the edges of black holes

In the simulation, Bonnell and colleague Ken Rice of the University of Edinburgh placed a cloud of gas 10 light years away from a black hole on a path that would take it near the edge of the black hole.

And nowhere in the universe today is gravity stronger than at the edge of a black hole — at the event horizon, the boundary beyond which gravity is so overwhelming that light and matter that pass through can never escape.

General relativity has never been tested in places where the effects of gravity become truly extreme — for example, at the edge of a black hole.

The edge of a black hole, beyond which not even light can escape, can be smooth an uneventful or a burning wall of fire, depending on your perspective

«So we think we're getting close to the edge of the black hole,» Doeleman says.

As well as producing Oscar - nominated visual effects for the movie, Thorne and the effects team also unearthed some unexpected physics, such as that an observer close to a rapidly spinning black hole would see more than a dozen images of individual stars just outside one edge of the black hole's «shadow.»

Now, with this latest observation at multiple wavelengths, «we can understand how this material gets launched,» Willott says, «and with similar advances in the future, we will get closer to seeing the edge of a black hole.»

The oval boundary of water around a vortex in the ocean can be described with the same mathematical equations as the light that whips around the edges of a black hole.

This loop of light, called the innermost stable circular orbit, outlines the edge of the black hole like a bull's - eye.

Black holes also have coherent boundaries: If you could shoot a beam of light so it just skims the edge of a black hole, the light's photons would whiz around it, forming a photon sphere.

Through dynamic CGI animation, Levin illustrates the principles of gravity, and even takes a trip to the edge of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

They say that time stands still on the edge of a black hole, nature's most awesome phenomenon.

Hauling 3,560 pounds worth of aluminum, carbon and steel to a stop is like hitting the event horizon at the edge of a black hole — time stands still.

The first story travels to the edge of a black hole, as superstring physicist Brian Greene and composer Philip Glass bring Einstein's general theory of relativity to life.