Sentences with phrase «gravitational point of no return»

The Nottingham experiment was based on the theory that an area immediately outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole — a black hole's gravitational point of no return — will be dragged round by the rotation and any wave that enters this region, but does not stray past the event horizon, should be deflected and come out with more energy than it carried on the way in — an effect known as superradiance.

This could allow scientists to peer into some of the more mysterious features of the cosmos, including event horizons — gravitational points of no return around black holes — and the blazing particle jets erupting from them.

Not exact matches

New Chandra images of Sagittarius A * (Sgr A *), which is located about 26,000 light - years from Earth, indicate that less than 1 percent of the gas initially within Sgr A *'s gravitational grasp ever reaches the point of no return, also called the event horizon.