Sentences with phrase «fields near the black hole»
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.
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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.
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).