Sentences with phrase «observations about black holes»

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Based on such observations, and even more on theoretical arguments, researchers guesstimate there are about 10 million black holes in the Milky Way.

Chandra X-ray Observatory Center Background about earlier discovery of x-rays from galaxy's black hole Technical report on previous Chandra observations of Sagittarius A * NASA article on x-ray flare

The lens magnified the black hole 100 times more than is possible with current telescopes, so more observations could help reveal more about its nature.

Long - term observations of IRAS F11119 +3257 suggest that winds near its central black hole blow outward at about 25 % the speed of light, the researchers report today in Nature.

«Observations with the next generation of radio telescopes will tell us more about what actually happens when a star is eaten by a black hole — and how powerful jets form and evolve right next to black holes,» explains Stefanie Komossa, astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.

Other physicists disagree about whether that observation counts, since the team was not working with a real black hole.

Observations of this variability provide a great way to learn about the black hole and its immediate environment.

If further data support this observation, it could mark the first confirmed finding of a primordial black hole, guiding theories about the beginnings of the universe.

We are understanding a little more about the Super Massive Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy and observations are also revealing that Einstein was right about his theory of general relativity.

The observations, presented in a paper led by Yali Shao (Peking University and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory), have provided intriguing insight about early supermassive black hole growth.

The stars used in the observations are so close to the black hole that they move at 1 or 2 percent the speed of light, Eckart said, and they approach to within only about 100 times the Earth - sun distance of the black hole itself, which is quite close by galactic standards, he said.

Observations with NASA s Chandra X-ray Observatory have disclosed two giant black holes, about 3,000 light - years apart, which will drift toward one another and eventually merge together into a larger black hole.