Not exact matches
(For example, there's no reason that our universe might not have «bubbled» out
from the
black hole of another universe or be the result of two or more larger dimensions colliding with each
other — we just don't know)
It's so easy to slip into that
black hole of self - hate, but when you hear
from others, it gives you a little bit more strength and more courage to stop fretting about what's on the
other end of the fork.
The
other problem, Pope says, is that summer homework packets (frequently put off until the last unhappy week before school begins), often seem to fall into an academic
black hole once they're turned in — with no feedback
from teachers and no effect on kids» grades.
On the
other hand, if it escapes
from the
black hole, it will violate Einstein's theory of relativity.
Morris calls the work «exciting» but notes that due to the very low total numbers of photons used in the analysis, of the dozen putative
black holes some might actually merely be statistical flukes produced by coincidentally timed emissions
from other sources.
Traditional
black hole seeds, on the
other hand, which derive
from dead stars, are likely to be too faint for the JWST or
other telescopes to see.
Building on the work of several
other research groups, my collaborator Giuseppe Lodato and I published a set of papers in 2006 and 2007 in which we proposed a novel mechanism that could have produced more massive
black hole seeds
from the get - go.
HAWC can also pick up gamma rays
from other galaxies, perhaps caused by
black holes at their centres.
Physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), which has twin instruments in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, spotted a burst of gravitational waves
from black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as the sun that spiraled into each
other 1.3 billion light - years away.
But the gravitational disturbance
from the
black hole pair distorted spacetime, slightly squeezing one arm of the detector while stretching the
other -LRB-
Others wanted to know what I thought of the science in the movie,
from space - diving to
black -
hole time travel.
From simulations run by others, the researchers conclude that the optical and UV bursts likely originated from the collision of stellar debris on the outer perimeter of the black h
From simulations run by
others, the researchers conclude that the optical and UV bursts likely originated
from the collision of stellar debris on the outer perimeter of the black h
from the collision of stellar debris on the outer perimeter of the
black hole.
A report published online by Science on 2 August suggests that cross-shaped radio galaxies harbor massive
black holes that suddenly flipped their spins, probably by absorbing
black holes from other galaxies.
Dark matter could be small
black holes or objects
from other dimensions.
While the Milky Way's
black hole is currently inactive, many in
other galaxies are swallowing up gas
from dense discs that surround them, producing copious X-rays and
other radiation in the process.
Extragalactic neutrinos come
from elementary particles that collided shortly after the big bang or crashed into each
other while orbiting massive objects like
black holes.
Nanohertz gravitational waves are emitted
from pairs of supermassive
black holes orbiting each
other, each of which contain millions or a billion times more mass than those detected by LIGO.
Galaxy M83 sparkles with X-rays
from black holes, each of which may spawn
other universes like our own.
Get fully to grips with it, and we could have a new way not just to fathom
black holes, but also to crack some of cosmology's
other toughest nuts —
from why the expansion of the universe is accelerating to how it all began.
The time between blasts gives clues about how fast and how far the orbiting gas is
from the
hole's center — in
other words, whether the
black hole has small, medium or large gravitational force.
The conclusion that supermassive
black holes can grow,
from TDEs and perhaps
other means, at rates above those corresponding to the Eddington limit has important implications.
Besides
black holes, what
other kinds of objects that are made
from warped space - time and create gravity waves?
In addition, HESS has detected emissions
from new classes of objects emitting very high energy gamma rays, such as stellar - mass
black holes orbiting massive stars, and has characterized the absence of emissions
from other classes of objects such as rapidly moving stars.
«We think this means the optical and UV emission arose far
from the
black hole, where elliptical streams of orbiting matter crashed into each
other.»
In its updated form, it receives e-mail requests
from astronomers and automatically executes the observations, searching for planets around
other stars and monitoring the flickering of gas falling into
black holes.
If the two
black holes composing the newfound pair are equally distant
from Earth, they're just 450 light - years apart and orbit each
other every 4 million years.
Other evidence comes
from the analysis of modern galaxies, most of which have central
black holes whose masses seem to correlate closely with the properties of their host galaxies.
Physicists Roberto Emparan and Marina Martínez
from the University of Barcelona have found a simple and exact way to approach the subject of the event horizon of two merging
black holes, where one is much smaller than the
other.
He finds that most cosmic rays come
from well - known objects that produce
other forms of radiation, too —
black holes emit X-rays, for instance, and supernovas glow with visible light.
This supersized
black hole is about 10 times heavier and brighter than
others discovered
from the same time period, says Wu, suggesting it grew extremely rapidly.
Using simulations to measure how radiation
from one galaxy influenced
black hole formation in the
other, the researchers found that the neighboring galaxy could be smaller and closer than previously estimated.
The 1000 physicists working with LIGO have twice detected such waves emanating
from a pair of massive
black holes spiraling into each
other.
Hawking realized that if a pair of particles
from the vacuum popped into existence straddling the
black hole's boundary then one particle could fly into space, while the
other would fall into the
black hole.
This «habitable zone» is far
from the lethal radiation, fast - flying supernova debris, and
black holes that afflict
other parts of the galaxy.
Data
from these waves will test Einstein's predictions about how fast
black holes spin and exactly what happens when they smash into neutron stars and into each
other.
These events will be dramatic: In terms of energy, two merging
black holes should «outshine every star in every galaxy in the universe in their final moments,» says Montana State's Cornish, who studies how to make sense of the data that will soon pour in
from LIGO, Virgo and
other gravitational wave experiments.
Other cosmic phenomena such as supernovae in the Milky Way and colliding neutron stars in our galactic neighborhood should also produce detectable gravitational waves, each with their own accompanying revolutionary insights, but so far all three of LIGO's detections have been death - rattles
from merging pairs of
black holes in remote stretches of the universe.
Powerful gales
from supermassive
black holes in the center of galaxies can blast gas and
other raw materials right out of the galaxy, robbing it of the raw materials needed to make new stars, a new study suggests.
The amount of data we collected,
from X-rays to ultraviolet to near - infrared light, is definitely larger than for any of the
other candidate rogue
black holes.»
Other so - called hypervelocity stars are thought to have been boosted to their high speeds by close encounters with our galaxy's supermassive
black hole (see Hypervelocity stars: Catch them while you can), but this star is too young to have travelled all the way
from the centre of the Milky Way.
As the bright star transfers mass to the
black hole, the two will slowly move away
from each
other because their orbits will readjust to the change in mass.
SKA will build thousands of radio dishes and
other antennas all across southern Africa and at a second site in Australia to tackle a wide range of astronomical questions,
from the nature of
black holes and galaxy evolution to dark energy, cosmic magnetism, and the birth of the first stars.
He, Natarajan, and
other astronomers have been looking for these kinds baby
black holes, hoping to confirm that they do, indeed, exist and then trying to work out their origins
from the downstream consequences.
In this artist's illustration of the event, gas
from the star (red) falls toward the
black hole, while a wind blows the
other way (blue).
Physicists have repeatedly dismissed the notion of runaway
black holes or any
other disastrous consequences
from such experiments.
The brilliant burst came
from only light - minutes away
from the
black hole's surface, Melia and
others claim.
«Hopefully with the increased sensitivity of future telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array we'll be able to detect jets
from other supermassive
black holes of this type and discover even more about them,» Dr Anderson said.
Thidé, Tamburini and
others recently showed how this detection scheme, carried out using radio telescopes, could identify the tell - tale twisted radiation
from spinning
black holes (see «How to spot a spinning
black hole»).
Similarly, they think that random spins result
from black holes that formed separately and later fell into orbit around each
other.
«We think that the most massive
black holes out there in the early universe formed
from direct collapse, but the less massive ones could have formed in
other ways,» says Priyamvada Natarajan at Yale University.