Sentences with phrase «event in the regions immediately»

Scientists have used the NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), an orbiting X-ray telescope, to capture an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole.

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole.

Not exact matches

The Nottingham experiment was based on the theory that an area immediately outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole — a black hole's gravitational point of no return — will be dragged round by the rotation and any wave that enters this region, but does not stray past the event horizon, should be deflected and come out with more energy than it carried on the way in — an effect known as superradiance.