Sentences with phrase «monster black holes»

The answer coming in a quote from a National Geographic documentary Monster Black Holes: «It's empty because the object, or system that collapsed to form it in the first place, has shrivelled away to nothing... it no longer exists».

A newly discovered way to determine the spin of monster black holes could help shed light on the evolution of these bizarre objects and the galaxies they anchor.

Priyamvada Natarajan, «The First Monster black Holes,» Scientific American, Vol.

As most galaxies are known to contain monster black holes, the obvious question is: How do black holes affect the evolution of galaxies and vice versa?

(In fact, monster black holes at the centers of galaxies can cause matter around them to radiate so much light that they become some of the brightest objects in the universe.)

The clouds were probably energised by nearby monster black holes that had blasted them with intense radiation.

Ma says that the monster black holes her team discovered in 2011 in NGC 4889 and NGC 3842, each weighing about 10 billion solar masses, may be quiescent quasars.

Maybe there are a lot more monster black holes out there that don't live in a skyscraper in Manhattan, but in a tall building somewhere in the Midwestern plains.»

«Radiation from nearby galaxies helped fuel first monster black holes: Modeling supports one view of massive black - hole creation in early universe.»

Less than 500 million years later, it was full of monster black holes embedded in vast galaxies.

DID monster black holes pull the first galaxies together, or were they born inside those galaxies?

Scientists led by Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology ran the huge cosmological simulations that can be used to predict the rate at which gravitational waves caused by collisions between the monster black holes might be detected.

The X-ray sky crackles with previously unimagined action: exploding stars, gas swirling into monster black holes, and pile - driver smashups of whole clusters of galaxies.

PLANETS and asteroids may be smashing into each other by the thousand around monster black holes.

Astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered an unexpected link between two very different wavelengths of the light they emit, the mid-infrared and gamma rays.

Ask Peter Gabriel (The Guardian) • Scientists Have Finally Detected Gravitational Waves, and They Reveal the Death Spiral of Two Monster Black Holes (Slate)

At the nucleus of Circinus is a monster black hole, and matter is spiraling into it.

Black holes can be secretive about their past, but now there may be an easy way to tell if a monster black hole was once a pair that got cosy and fused together.

A monster black hole, as massive as a billion suns, is the likely source of all the commotion.

Almost every large galaxy still houses a monster black hole, up to billions of times the mass of our sun, at its center.

Consider the monster black hole in the center of our galaxy.

The engine behind a quasar's efficient brilliance is a monster black hole, as massive as a billion or more suns, which consumes gas so voraciously that the stuff heats to millions of degrees as it falls in.

The nearby giant galaxy M87 has a monster black hole at its center (more than 6 billion suns» worth) offering astronomers a similar «eclipse effect,» notes Doeleman.

«Gravitational wave kicks monster black hole out of galactic core.»

I'm talking about the monster black hole that lurks at the heart of the Milky Way.

«Monster black hole discovered at cosmic dawn.»

That suggested a monster black hole was involved.

Zoom in on the pulsar PSR J1745 - 2900 that has helped astronomers discover a powerful magnetic field around the monster black hole Sagittarius A * at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Using data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile, among others, the researchers tracked how the stars moved as they went around the monster black hole.

Not exact matches

These are poems that take as their beginning point headlines from the National Enquirer: «Beauty Queen Has Monster Child,» «Woman Picked up by UFO, Flown into Black Hole,» «Sweethearts Vanish in Tunnel of Love,» «Human Boy Found in Indian Jungle Among Wolf Pack.»

Seeds to Monsters: Tracing the Growth of Black Holes in the Universe.

It was an event widely anticipated, including in Discover («To the Edge and Back,» September 2014, «When a Slumbering Monster Awakens,» April 2014 and «Our Black Hole Lights Up,» January / February 2014).

You can't see a black hole directly, but you can see its shadow — and now vast telescopes are ready to get their first glimpse of the cosmic monster at the heart of our galaxy

Try to grow a black hole fast enough to explain the ones that existed in the real universe when it was just a billion years old: monsters a billion times the mass of the sun that drive the powerful beacons called quasars.

Some believe these events are key to understanding the origin of the universe's biggest black holes, monsters weighing in at billions of times the Sun's mass.

Such a process takes place over a very long time (tens to hundreds of millions of years), and is capable to turn a small black hole created in the explosion of a heavy star into the super-heavyweight monsters that lurk at the centre of galaxies.

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK — Many astronomers believe that black holes at the hearts of galaxies grew into hulking monsters as galaxies coalesced around them in the early universe.

When one thinks of black holes, one usually envisions massive monsters that can swallow spaceships, or even stars, whole.

A sun - size star approaching within 30 solar radii of the monster, they calculate, would be ripped apart by the black hole's gravitational pull, which would be far stronger on the near side of the star than on the far side.

Some of this material would feed the black hole and lead to sudden flaring and other evidence of the monster enjoying a rare meal.

The first - generation black holes were puny compared with the monsters we see at the centers of galaxies today.

«A black hole under the gravitational lens: An unusual observation method uncovers processes near the event horizon of a distant, massive monster.»

Black holes are monsters that supposedly consume everything that comes close to them, yet the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way has been known to eat up only a tiny fraction of the gas and dust blowing in from massive young stars neBlack holes are monsters that supposedly consume everything that comes close to them, yet the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way has been known to eat up only a tiny fraction of the gas and dust blowing in from massive young stars neblack hole at the heart of the Milky Way has been known to eat up only a tiny fraction of the gas and dust blowing in from massive young stars nearby.

Assuming this is the orbital period of hot gas revolving near the black hole, the astronomers deduce that the monster weighs 450,000 to 5 million times more than the sun, agreeing with previous estimates and making the black hole comparable to the 4 - million - solar - mass one at the Milky Way's center — but located in a galaxy 3.9 billion light - years away.

This measurement is also a gauge of the black hole's velocity, because the gas is gravitationally locked to the monster object.

The most plausible explanation for this propulsive energy is that the monster object was given a kick by gravitational waves unleashed by the merger of two hefty black holes at the center of the host galaxy.

There are two different black hole scenarios proposed to explain these objects: (1) they contain very «big» black holes that could be more than a thousand times more massive than the Sun (Note 1), or (2) they are relatively small black holes, «little monsters» with masses no more than a hundred times that of the Sun, that shine at luminosities exceeding theoretical limits for standard accretion (called «supercritical (or super-Eddington) accretion,» Note 2).

After carefully examining several possibilities, the team concluded that huge amounts of gas are rapidly falling onto «little monster» black holes in each of these ULXs, which produces a dense disk wind flowing away from the supercritical accretion disk.

So you shouldn't think of the little black holes as these, kind of, cosmic monsters or [that can] just, kind of, tear you apart.

Black holes, the insatiable monsters of the universe, are impossible to kill with any of the weapons in our grasp.