Sentences with phrase «of black holes spinning»

In their latest finds, physicists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory spotted the merger of black holes spinning in different orientations, as shown in this artist's conception.

There is, however, also the chance that both possibilities are true — that there are instances of black holes spinning slowly in the field and instances of black holes spinning rapidly in a dense environment.

The highest - energy light arises from the center of a crescent - shaped region on the side of the black hole spinning toward us.

Not exact matches

This produced a spinning black hole 21 times the mass of the sun.

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory's detection of spacetime ripples from two merging black holes on December 26, 2015, indicated that one black hole was spinning like a tilted top as it orbited with its companion (SN: 7/9/16, p. 8).

Study co-author Andrew Blain of the University of Leicester says that a slow spin may be how this black hole has sustained its binge, which he calls the equivalent of «winning a hot - dog - eating contest lasting hundreds of millions of years.»

Study co-author Andrew Blain of the University of Leicester says that a slow spin may be how this black hole has sustained its binge, which he calls the equivalent of «winning a hot dog — eating contest lasting hundreds of millions of years.»

But a photon with a very tiny «in between» mass can enter into an orbit of the spinning black hole and steal some of its angular momentum.

Computer simulations suggest that when two black holes spiral towards each other on a collision course, much of the gas and dust in the spinning accretion disc surrounding each of them is ripped away by the gravity of the other.

Cardoso and colleagues calculated how long photons of given masses would take to sap a black hole's spin.

Physicists concluded that the first detected gravitational waves, in September 2015, were produced during the final fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes to produce a single, more massive spinning black hole.

Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for the formation of black holes outside of our galaxy; either they are spinning more slowly than black holes in our own galaxy or they spin rapidly but are «tumbled around» with spins randomly oriented to their orbit.

The study was motivated by recent groundbreaking simulations of mergers between black holes of different masses or spin orientations.

The age of the oldest spinning black holes effectively puts an upper limit on the photon's mass.

For a rotating black hole, the black hole itself is probably a ring of spinning neutrons, which does not collapse because of centrifugal forces.

In 1963 Roy Kerr, a mathematician, found that a spinning black hole collapses into a ring of compressed matter, not a dot.

These are though to emanate from the spin axis of a black hole.

According to their model, an incoming black hole with at least 20 % of the mass of its partner will knock the main black hole off kilter, no matter how rapidly it spins.

Now Enrico Barausse, also at the University of Maryland in College Park, and his colleagues reckon that such incoming particles needn't strip spinning black holes.

Its twin detectors and companion supercomputers can pick apart the strength and frequency of gravitational waves to learn a black hole's mass, spin and location.

But in 2009, physicists Ted Jacobson and Thomas Sotiriou at the University of Maryland at College Park calculated that, under some circumstances, an incoming particle might cause a spinning black hole to rotate so fast that this horizon is destroyed, allowing light to escape.

But if the black holes instead find one another in the chaos of a star cluster, they could spin any which way.

Most astrophysicists think that gamma ray bursts, fantastically energetic flares from deep space, stream from new black holes that form when the cores of massive spinning stars collapse to trigger supernovas.

They find that a spinning naked singularity turns out to be a strong gravitational lens, magnifying the light from background stars more than an ordinary black hole and producing a distinctive pattern of images.

«Remarkably, we could also infer that at least one of the two black holes in the binary was spinning.»

Merritt calculated the effect of such a merger on the spin of the combined black hole.

The accuracy of this assertion might become clearer in a few years, as various groups are running computer simulations to calculate the self - force of particles orbiting spinning black holes, says Barausse.

Likewise, if black holes act like information mirrors, as Hayden and Preskill suggested, a particle falling into a black hole would be followed by an antiparticle coming out — a partner with the opposite electric charge — which would carry the information contained in the spin of the original particle.

This head - spinning idea is one cosmologist's conclusion based on a modification of Einstein's equations of general relativity that changes our picture of what happens at the core of a black hole.

For example, spin may cause some black holes to fire off violent jets of matter.

New research reveals the dynamics of the spinning disks of gas that surround young stars and gargantuan black holes

Maity was an author of the article, «Black hole spin dependence of general relativistic multi-transonic accretion close to the horizon,» which was published online last December in the journal New Astronomy and in print in the journal's May issue.

One of the weirdest implications of Einstein's general relativity theory is that as a black hole spins, it pulls space - time along.

Observations of the galaxy MCG -6-30-15 suggest that the spinning of its central black hole is producing power just like an electric generator.

Once matter is pulled toward the black hole, it rotates around the edge and spins off some of its angular momentum before it falls in.

Stars also spin, and when a large one collapses, the resulting black hole must spin even faster, since the same amount of angular momentum is stuffed into a much smaller amount of space.

Like bald pates, black holes of similar masses and spins then have no details — no «hair» — to distinguish them, as American theorist John Archibald Wheeler quipped.

«It's very tricky telling what's the feature and what's the continuum,» says Julian Krolik of Johns Hopkins University, one of the theorists now trying to figure out how magnetic fields could convert a black hole's spin energy into light.

That configuration would help it pinpoint the sources of gravitational waves on the sky and allow it to see the longer - wavelength ripples from a wider range of sources including binary white dwarfs, slower - spinning pulsars and intermediate - mass black holes weighing hundreds or thousands of suns.

So, if Alice measures the black hole's spin before and after dropping the qubit, the change in the spin is analogous to a bit of classical information transmitted by Bob from within the black hole to Alice outside.

Just measure the tiny change in the spin of a black hole.

By taking the change in the black hole's spin, and her half of the Hawking radiation that is emitted after she drops the qubit, Alice can use the rules of quantum teleportation to work out the spin of the qubit she dropped into the black hole — and hence retrieve information from beyond the black hole's event horizon.

This time, the subtle tremor of spacetime that signaled the merger also revealed a key feature of the black holes: their spins, which were out of kilter.

Around spinning black holes, however, frame dragging could be hugely important: By whipping magnetic field lines through the electrically charged gas around the holes, it could convert them into electromagnetic generators, which would explain how they spew jets of energetic particles millions of light - years into space.

«If the black holes were not spinning in the same direction as the orbit, that would probably be a pretty good indicator of the dynamical formation channel,» Rodriguez says.

Still, the basic picture — a fierce corkscrew of magnetized plasma unleashed by a frantically spinning black hole — is valuable for quasar researchers, says astrophysicist Ramesh Narayan of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge.

Gravity distorts both aspects of space - time, and any dynamic event — the gentle spinning of a planet or the violent colliding of two black holes — sends out ripples of gravitational waves.

LIGO researchers found that the black hole spins were not aligned, and that there's an 80 % probability that at least one of them spun in generally the opposite sense of the orbital motion.

The early 1970s were the «heroic age» of relativity research — theorists had proved that if Einstein was right, black holes weren't infinitely diverse but standardised objects, characterised just as surely as any elementary particle by mass and spin.

The concept is a variant of the Penrose process, first identified in 1969 by British astrophysicist Sir Roger Penrose as a mechanism for extracting energy from a spinning black hole.