Not exact matches
«There are undoubtedly vastly more black
holes out there than we have
observed,» he told
New Scientist.
But 2016's announcement of the first detection of gravitational waves, produced 1.3 billion years ago in the collision of two monstrous black
holes, has given scientists a whole
new way of
observing the heavens.
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.
If this is true, it would be «as close to directly
observing a black
hole as possible», says Frans Pretorius, a specialist in general - relativity simulations at Princeton University in
New Jersey.
«The rotational speed can be
observed, and the distance from the black
hole out to the rotating disc of stars can now be calculated precisely using the
new method.»
«We believe we have
observed two supermassive black
holes in closer proximity than ever before,» Suvi Gezari, assistant professor of astronomy at the university and a co-author of a
new study, published last week in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, said, in a statement released Monday.
Where his Metropolitan and Barcelona dropped anchor in immaculately -
observed social environs (Manhattan's waning debutante scene and the European refuge of loquacious Americans, respectively), Stillman's modestly - budgeted return to filmmaking
holed up in a dreamlike and not especially convincing college setting, where Gatsby-esque self - inventors sought to transform their ugly little world through good soap and
new dance crazes.
Make sure she has places to «hide» like cubby
holes and cat trees where she can
observe her
new surroundings undisturbed.