Sentences with phrase «properties at the black hole»
Physicist Brian Greene explains how properties at the black hole's surface — its event horizon — suggest the unsettling theory that our world is a mere representation of another universe, a shadow of the realm where real events take place.
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We might imagine that a zero - volume object is also an impossibility, yet physicists predict that the singularity at the heart of a black hole has just that property.
«Surprisingly, the ideas and techniques used in our work are elemental and allow us to thoroughly study the properties of the horizon at the moment both black holes join together to form one,» points out Emparan, who along with his colleague has published the results in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity.
«Depending on the mechanism at work, primordial black holes could have properties very similar to what LIGO detected,» Kashlinsky explained.
From its observed properties the star was determined to be about 0.8 times the mass of our Sun, and the mass of its mysterious counterpart was calculated at around 4.36 times the Sun's mass — almost certainly a black hole.
The GMVA will derive the properties of the accretion and outflow in the immediate surroundings of the Galactic Center, while the EHT will aim at imaging, for the very first time, the shadow of the black hole's event horizon.
From supermassive black holes at galactic centers to giant bursts of star formation to titanic collisions between galaxies, these discoveries allow astronomers to probe the current properties of galaxies as well as examine how they formed and developed.