Sentences with phrase «gravity near black holes»

To investigate, Adams and his team used a mathematical duality between Einstein's theory of general relativity — which describes gravity near black holes — and fluid dynamics.

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As the black holes drew near in a deepening pit of spacetime, they also churned up that fabric, emitting gravitational radiation (or gravity waves, as scientists often call them).

Flashes of X-ray light near the center of the disk result in light echoes that allow astronomers to map the structure of the funnel - like flow, revealing for the first time strong gravity effects around a normally quiescent black hole.

But something special occurs when pairs of particles emerge near the event horizon — the boundary between a black hole, whose gravity is so strong that it warps space - time, and the rest of the Universe.

This behavior aligns with Albert Einstein's predictions about extreme gravity near rotating black holes, published in his famous theory of general relativity.

This particular energy range offers astronomers a detailed look at what is happening near the event horizon, the region around a black hole from which light can no longer escape gravity's grasp.

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A century later, that insight underpins cutting - edge physics: searching for gravitational waves, probing the extreme gravity near the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, tracing the origin of the universe.

By some estimates, the telescope could be used to image near the black hole's event horizon — the boundary around which nothing can escape the black hole's gravity.

The team led by three principal investigators, Heino Falcke, Radboud University Nijmegen, Michael Kramer, Max - Planck - Institut für Radioastronomie, and Luciano Rezzolla, Goethe University in Frankfurt and Max - Planck - Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, hopes to measure the shadow cast by the event horizon of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, find new radiopulsars near this black hole, and combine these measurements with advanced computer simulations of the behaviour of light and matter around black holes as predicted by theories of gravity.