Sentences with phrase «regions near the black hole»

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This particular energy range offers astronomers a detailed look at what is happening near the event horizon, the region around a black hole from which light can no longer escape gravity's grasp.

So far, Doeleman and company have only been able to establish that radio emissions near a black hole originate from a specific region whose size they can determine.

NGC1052 - DF2 does reside in a region where such things could conceivably occur, lying near a giant elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart.

To get a better handle on how much energy those photoionized atoms consume, researchers at Osaka University in Japan attempted to recreate conditions in the region of an accretion disk that would be nearest a black hole.

Based on data taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the model takes into account how energy flows between two regions around the black hole — an inner core close to the boundary beyond which light can not escape (the event horizon) and an outer ring that extends far out and includes the massive young stars lurking near the black hole.

The new images home in on a region around the black hole less than 4.2 light - years across — smaller than the distance between the sun and its nearest star, says Roopesh