Sentences with phrase «jets along their axes»

These black holes are surrounded by spinning discs of extremely hot material that is often spewed out in long jets along their axes of rotation.

Not exact matches

A gamma ray burst is thought to emerge when jets of hot matter moving at near — light - speed shoot out along the rotational axis of the newborn black hole, beaming radiation into space like a lighthouse.

The radio and x-ray signals come from the jet, which at first would have beamed them too narrowly along its axis to be seen from Earth.

The jets and outflows, by contrast, seemed to throw matter up and down along the disk's axis of rotation.

This is a blazar — a rare case in which one of the two jets happens to be directed towards Earth so that the astronomers look directly into the jet along the longitudinal axis.

The twisting magnetic fields will act as drive belts, tapping the enormous energy of the spinning disk to launch powerful jets of gas along the axis of the disk and back out into space.

In addition to accretion disks, black holes also have winds and incredibly bright jets erupting from them along their rotation axis, shooting out matter and radiation at nearly the speed of light.

As the space around the equator grows overcrowded, other stuff spewed by the dying giant would tend to get funneled into jets along the polar axis.

This ultra-powerful field becomes better organized and forms two outwardly directed funnels along the new black hole's rotational axis, which then creates the two bi-polar jets of particles moving near the speed of light that are detected as a short GRB (NASA news release; Seil Collins, New Scientist, April 13, 2011; and Rezzolla et al, 2011; and more discussion and images from Bruno Giacomazzo's presentation).

An artist's conception of an outflow jet ejected along the central axis of a galactic black hole.

If the companion were pulling in material from a neighboring star, jets escaping along the companion's rotation axis could be produced.