A giant x-ray flare from the heart of our galaxy is helping researchers test
ideas about a black hole they believe lurks there
Not exact matches
The
idea of matter escaping the alleged point - of - no - return was surprising (it's a central plot point in that other recent movie
about black holes, the biographical The Theory of Everything), but the fate of information that falls into the
black hole was what really troubled Hawking's colleagues.
An example is the
idea about how to make analogs of
black holes.
The
idea that new universes can emerge from collapsing
black holes may be illuminated through additional knowledge
about the properties of
black holes, which are being studied now.
Penrose developed the
idea of cosmic censorship, which holds that information
about processes happening within
black holes remains forever hidden from outside observers.
A sudden flare - up observed late last year in a quasar - like object
about 3 billion light years away is lending support to the
idea that such objects may contain a pair of enormous
black holes.
Despite the seriousness of his
ideas, Thorne is also famous for placing playful bets with his longtime friend Stephen Hawking on questions
about the nature of their favorite subject,
black holes.
«
Black holes are a theoretical laboratory for trying out new
ideas about gravity,» says Gonzalo Olmo, a Ramón y Cajal grant researcher at the Universitat de València (University of Valencia, UV).
Joseph Polchinski, Firewall Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara Year: 2012 Known for: Discovering D - branes, explaining what D - branes are (a string theory thing)
Idea: Once a
black hole has lost
about half of itself to Hawking radiation, the event horizon can no longer store enough encoded information to tell the story of what's inside.
Unlike Einstein's theories, which have been confirmed many times by experiment, Hawking's
ideas about singularities and
black hole evaporation will probably never be observed.
Theoretical physicist and
black hole guru Kip Thorne says he gets
about one great
idea every 10 years.
The new evidence may force theorists to revise their
ideas about how material behaves in the vicinity of
black holes.
Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has shaken up the popular science world with his newest study
about the basic nature of
black holes, but is his
idea revolutionary?
This is an interesting place where a lot of the
ideas we've had can come together and can be tested, fairly exotic
ideas about how
black holes may interact with each other dynamically and how they would affect the surrounding stellar population.»
According to Professor Hawking, to get a complete
idea of the universe, we must know
about atoms that are building blocks of every element on the universe, the force which binds the atom together, life of stars; birth and death, the outline of time and space, the
black hole mysteries and the galaxy profile.