Sentences with phrase «glowing debris disk»
A young, hungry black hole usually takes an occasional break from feeding — its glowing debris disk can get so intense it pushes incoming material further away.
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But a feeding black hole is surrounded by a whirling, white - hot disk of glowing debris — material heated to millions of degrees as it spirals down to oblivion.
The astronomers narrowed their search to stars between five and ten million years old — old enough to host full - fledged planetary systems and debris disks — and used ALMA to examine the millimeter - wavelength «glow» from the carbon monoxide in the stars» debris disks.
The problem with this interpretation was that such collision events would create large debris disks which would glow brightly in the infrared, yet previous searches with NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, had found no such excess infrared emission from KIC 8462852.