Sentences with phrase «orbit near the 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.

Not exact matches

Scientists can also do reverberation mapping, which uses X-ray telescopes to look for time differences between emissions from various locations near the black hole to understand the orbits of gas and photons around the black hole.

The orbit of S0 - 2 (light blue) located near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole will be used to test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity and generate potentially new gravitational models.

Most stars near the center manage to stay out of the clutches of the hole, though, simply by virtue of being in ultrafast orbits around it.

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.

The orbits of two stars, S0 - 2 and S0 - 38 located near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole will be used to test Einstein's theory of General Relativity and potentially generate new gravitational models.

Ghez used this cutting - edge system to track the orbits of stars near the supermassive black hole located at the center of the Milky Way.

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.

An image from W. M. Keck Observatory near infrared data shows that G2 survived its closest approach to the black hole and continues happily on its orbit.