Sentences with phrase «happened as a black hole»

To spot the black hole's event horizon, a team of astronomers — led by Michael Garcia and Ramesh Narayan of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts — watched what happened as a black hole stole gas away from a nearby star.

Not exact matches

So they're kind of the same in some deep mathematical sense, and as of today we don't really know what happens at the center of a black hole and we don't really know what happened at the moment of the big bang so these are two puzzles that are cousins of one another and anything that we learn about one is certainly going to shed light on the other.»

Sometimes thought leads nowhere, as in considerations of what happens to information absorbed by a black hole.

This is intriguing, but, as long as the black hole continues to exist, we do not need to worry about what might have happened to the information, or entropy, associated with the original star.

A black hole arises when the warping around a point grows so severe that that spacetime in the area becomes like a funnel so steep that nothing can climb back out, as may happen when a massive star collapses.

«But I don't think we can explore that question without looking at what is happening at the inflationary zone inside black holes and trying to understand the physics as best we can.»

As with Las Vegas, what happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.

Specifically, in this work he has applied geometric structures similar to those of a crystal or graphene layer, not typically used to describe black holes, since these geometries better match what happens inside a black hole: «Just as crystals have imperfections in their microscopic structure, the central region of a black hole can be interpreted as an anomaly in space - time, which requires new geometric elements in order to be able to describe them more precisely.

The feeding process is somewhat similar to what happens around supermassive black holes, but isn't as big and messy.

But as many as half of black hole births may happen more stealthily, with no explosion to mark the event.

Such a «theory of everything» would unite all the forces of nature and explain why time and space exist, as well as answering such trifles as how the Universe began and what happens at the centre of a black hole.

«Some years ago we may have thought of [black holes] as surly loners sucking their thumb in the corner and gobbling anything that happened to come by,» Miller says.

However, as we haven't been able to directly see what's happening close to the black hole's event horizon, how this accretion works has been a mystery.

This latest detection originated from a merger creating a black hole of 49 solar masses (another «heavy» black hole like the first one), but the merger happened over twice as far away than previous events.

Set in the distant future, The Black Hole features a crew of five, as well as a rambunctious robot, who happen upon a mysterious black hole in their space vessel, the PaloBlack Hole features a crew of five, as well as a rambunctious robot, who happen upon a mysterious black hole in their space vessel, the PalomHole features a crew of five, as well as a rambunctious robot, who happen upon a mysterious black hole in their space vessel, the Paloblack hole in their space vessel, the Palomhole in their space vessel, the Palomino.

The black holes are people who happen to hit retirement age at the start of a downturn, such as in 1929, 1946 and 1973.

It may not be a Hadron Collider (the less said about black holes and anti-matter the better), but whilst it won't enlighten us as to what happened at the beginning of time, it will shed some light on the subject at hand, and it's a lot funnier.