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The finding suggests that mature stars found near the black hole by other researchers may have originated there despite the violent conditions, says Ramírez, who presented her findings at a press conference on Wednesday.

Not exact matches

These observations help clarify the origin of the powerful jet of gas streaming from the galaxy's center at a high fraction of the speed of light: it is likely driven by the swirling matter near the black hole's boundary.»

For example, the forces felt by electrons near the gold foil equal those felt 5 centimeters above a black hole.

(The fact that this hasn't had catastrophic effects on Earth, if it happens at all, is one reason that researchers at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, are so confident that scare stories about black holes being produced by their Large Hadron Collider are baseless.)

If two people were floating near, say, a pair of merging black holes, the space between them would grow and shrink as space - time was stretched and distorted by gravitational waves.

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.

By tracking the positions and properties of hundreds of millions of randomly distributed particles as they collide and annihilate each other near a black hole, the new model reveals processes that produce gamma rays with much higher energies, as well as a better likelihood of escape and detection, than ever thought possible.

A star ripped to shreds by a massive black hole may explain a strange feature near the center of our galaxy.

QPOs were first discovered near black holes (as X-rays) in 1985 by Michiel van der Klis (University of Amsterdam), who is a co-author of the new article.

Based on data taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the model takes into account how energy flows between two regions around the black hole — an inner core close to the boundary beyond which light can not escape (the event horizon) and an outer ring that extends far out and includes the massive young stars lurking near the black hole.

Black hole hair would change how such objects orbit near the hole, and these changes could be detectable by telescopes that will come online within the next decade.

Instead of streaming out of a metal casing and turbine, a blazar's jets «are confined and focused by coiled magnetic fields originating near the [supermassive] black hole.»

Until recently, it was not clear what prevented the delicate filaments from being destroyed by competing gravitational forces, but Hubble Space Telescope images suggest they are supported by magnetic fields generated near the galaxy's central black hole.

Now researchers have proposed a new optical technique to observe and study black holes by measuring the imprint they should leave on the light that passes near an event horizon.

That was consistent with a quasar, but dust blocked the definitive quasar signature of spectral lines emitted by gas near the black hole.

When experimentalists at RHIC finally crunched through all their data, they confirmed that the quark - gluon fluid indeed had a low viscosity, at or near the theoretical minimum value predicted by the five - dimensional black - hole model.

By some estimates, the telescope could be used to image near the black hole's event horizon — the boundary around which nothing can escape the black hole's gravity.

New research led by astrophysicists at York University has revealed the fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths near a supermassive black hole.

In the new study, Charles Hailey, an astrophysicist at Columbia University, and his colleagues scrutinized the past dozen years of data gathered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, an orbiting craft whose instruments are designed to detect high - energy radiation emitted by the immensely hot material surrounding exploded stars and near black holes.

Instead, the X-ray data show the gas near the black hole likely originates from winds produced by a disk - shaped distribution of young massive stars.

The team led by three principal investigators, Heino Falcke, Radboud University Nijmegen, Michael Kramer, Max - Planck - Institut für Radioastronomie, and Luciano Rezzolla, Goethe University in Frankfurt and Max - Planck - Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, hopes to measure the shadow cast by the event horizon of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, find new radiopulsars near this black hole, and combine these measurements with advanced computer simulations of the behaviour of light and matter around black holes as predicted by theories of gravity.

By measuring the rapid orbits of the stars near the center of our galaxy, Dr. Ghez and her colleagues have moved the case for a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way from a possibility to a certainty.

The astronomers also noticed that one side of the donor star was always brighter than the other because it was illuminated by X-rays coming from near the black hole.

Most X-rays are emitted by pockets of hot gases found between galaxies and near black holes.

Archival Hubble images, taken by the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), support the idea of twin black holes pushing stars away.

The problem is that the model developed by Keynesian theory begins to break down as we near the event horizon of a black hole of debt....

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