Sentences with phrase «massive sink holes»

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Another is that black holes find one another within a dense cluster of stars, as massive black holes sink to the center of the clump (SN Online: 6/19/16).

For theorists tinkering with computer models, the trouble lies in getting a massive amount of gas to pile up long enough to collapse all at once, into a vortex that feeds a nascent black hole like water down a sink drain.

But Kulkarni counters that such massive objects should sink even closer to the center and says the lack of x-rays means they aren't black holes at all.

In such a cluster, massive stars would sink towards the centre and, through complex interactions with lighter stars, form binary systems, possibly long after their transformation into black holes.

In time, Oka said, the object will be drawn towards Sagittarius A * and sink into it, making the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way even more massive.

Single black holes form in dense cluster environments and then — because they are the most massive objects — sink to the center of the cluster.