Sentences with phrase «hole accretion events»
«In fact, the energy and timescale of the gamma - ray emission is a better match to some types of supernovae, or to some of the supermassive black hole accretion events that Swift has seen,» Fox said.
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He saw the black hole's event horizon, the point beyond which nothing can escape; and an accretion disk, the gathering of matter siphoned from nearby stars.
For comparison, the event horizon of a black hole like this is about 13 times bigger than the sun, and the accretion disk formed by the disrupted star could extend to more than twice Earth's distance from the sun.
Just outside the event horizon whirls high - temperature material — the accretion disk — waiting to «fall into» the black hole like water spiraling down a drain.
Researchers are keen to understand the feeding habits of black holes because such binges, called accretion events, have an enormous effect on their surroundings, shutting off galaxy growth by heating and expelling the gas needed to form new stars.
The GMVA will derive the properties of the accretion and outflow in the immediate surroundings of the Galactic Center, while the EHT will aim at imaging, for the very first time, the shadow of the black hole's event horizon.
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.