Not exact matches
We drove back the by the
fields planted in corn, nopal cactus and agave that we had passed, found the irrigation canal, and followed it until it ended
near a small communal cattle watering
hole.
This may mean that the Milky Way's magnetic
field twists into surprisingly complex shapes
near the black
hole.
Instead of streaming out of a metal casing and turbine, a blazar's jets «are confined and focused by coiled magnetic
fields originating
near the [supermassive] black
hole.»
New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic
field in the source's environment, indicating that it is situated
near a massive black
hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.
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.
«We are directly measuring the motion of matter in a strong gravitational
field near to a black
hole,» says Ingram.
Like the
fields around our sun, these black
hole's magnetic
fields can periodically «reconnect,» a process that could catapult material from
near its surface.
In a
field study, Diane Adams, a marine biologist at Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, and her colleagues measured the currents
near the seafloor along the East Pacific Rise, a submarine ridge south - southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, that sports many hydrothermal vent systems.
This ultra-powerful
field becomes better organized and forms two outwardly directed funnels along the new black
hole's rotational axis, which then creates the two bi-polar jets of particles moving
near the speed of light that are detected as a short GRB (NASA news release; Seil Collins, New Scientist, April 13, 2011; and Rezzolla et al, 2011; and more discussion and images from Bruno Giacomazzo's presentation).
Only polarization of Sgr A * light permits to constrain the geometry of the magnetic
fields near the black
hole event horizon and it is possibly the only way to find out what Sgr A * radio source really is.