Sentences with phrase «photon out of the black hole»

The best they can do is guide one extra photon out of the black hole at a time, like water drops travelling along a fishing wire.

Not exact matches

The information would basically remain encoded in an infinite number of low - energy photons racing to get out of the black hole, but stuck at its event horizon by the black hole's intense gravity, according to a study in Physical Review Letters.

These rapidly annihilate, except if a pair of photons pops out too close to a black hole.

Thidé and his colleagues have now calculated that a black hole's dragging of spacetime should indeed impart a twist to photons flying out from the vicinity of an event horizon.

Normally, these pairs rapidly annihilate and disappear again, but if a pair of photons pops out too close to a black hole, one falls in — and the other escapes.

Picking out twisted photons from a black hole would provide new information about the objects themselves and provide important tests of general relativity, says Martin Bojowald, a theoretical physicist at Pennsylvania State University who wrote a commentary on Thidé and his colleagues» work for Nature Physics.