Sentences with phrase «from black hole physics»

This general purpose, long - lived facility would be the prime tool for generations of astronomers, producing transformational scientific advances in every area of astronomy and astrophysics from black hole physics to galaxy formation, from star and planet formation to the Solar System.

Not exact matches

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

Any deviations the Event Horizon Telescope measures from the predictions of general relativity have the potential to challenge our understanding of black hole physics.

Dr Simon Vaughan, Reader in Observational Astronomy at the University of Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy, explained: «The seemingly random fluctuations we see from the black holes and white dwarfs look remarkably similar to those from the young stellar objects — it is only the tempo that changes.»

«We know very well that black holes can be formed by the collapse of large stars, or as we have seen recently, the merger of two neutron stars,» said Savvas Koushiappas, an associate professor of physics at Brown University and coauthor of the study with Avi Loeb from Harvard University.

RB: The hints that we are getting are similar to the kind of hints we've been getting from semi-classical [not fully quantum mechanical] physics about black holes.

What gravitational waves from black holes say about supernova physics.

Four decades after surprising the physics world by showing that black holes might generate radiation and evaporate, Stephen Hawking has now published research describing how information might survive to escape from such an astronomical sink hole, too, The New York Times reports.

Seamlessly weaving together Einstein's life and science, Kaku presents an engaging biography of the man and his theories, which were framed around questions a child might ask and duly gave rise to the great discoveries of modern physics, from gravity waves to black holes.

The CTA, which should be completed by around the end of the decade, would allow scientists to carry out a range of research projects across astrophysics and fundamental physics, from the origin of cosmic rays to particle acceleration around black holes.

Scientists from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, and the National Research University Higher School of Economics have devised a method of distinguishing black holes from compact massive objects that are externally indistinguishable from one another.

But new computer simulations confirm that superfluid helium follows an unusual rule known from black holes — one with mysterious significance for physics.

The thing about these little black holes — and this is actually something I talk about [a] lot in the book and which is essential to unifying physics — little black holes, you've [got] to think of them very differently from the big ones.

Picking out twisted photons from a black hole would provide new information about the objects themselves and provide important tests of general relativity, says Martin Bojowald, a theoretical physicist at Pennsylvania State University who wrote a commentary on Thidé and his colleagues» work for Nature Physics.

Some clues came from black - hole physics.

And the closest approach is only a bit more than 25 billion kilometres from the black hole itself — barely escaping falling right in,» explains Stefan Gillessen (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany) who led the observing team [2].

«This newly discovered analogy has the potential to be a significant step forward in our understanding of turbulent flows in free - surface vortices and to provide insights into diverse areas of study ranging from civil engineering hydraulic structures to weather systems in the atmosphere and even extending to the details of how galaxies rotate around the black holes at their centres,» Dr Richard Sherlock, a lecturer in Physics at IT Sligo, said.

Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the Sun before losing the discs of gas they rely on to sustain themselves, according to research conducted by Professor Andrew King from the University of Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy.

«This lack of collisionality distinguishes the Sagittarius A * accretion disk from brighter and more radiative disks that orbit other black holes,» the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) explained in the statement.

The arrangement of circular forms connected by thin strands appears in other areas of physics — related to unimaginably huge structures such as galactic jets, which emanate from black holes at the centres of many galaxies.