Sentences with phrase «rotating around the black hole»

Surprisingly, recent work demonstrates that visual brain maps are dark - centric and that, just as stars rotate around black holes in the Universe, lights rotate around darks in the brain representation of visual space.

And, the astronomers found that the compact structure is rotating around the black hole, as expected.

«This newly discovered analogy has the potential to be a significant step forward in our understanding of turbulent flows in free - surface vortices and to provide insights into diverse areas of study ranging from civil engineering hydraulic structures to weather systems in the atmosphere and even extending to the details of how galaxies rotate around the black holes at their centres,» Dr Richard Sherlock, a lecturer in Physics at IT Sligo, said.

Not exact matches

«They are always created when a mass accelerates, like when an ice skater pirouettes or a pair of black holes rotate around each other.

Twisting of light around rotating black holes.

That material forms a rapidly rotating disk around the neutron star or black hole, and hurls high - velocity jets of particles from the disk's poles.

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.

Whereas nearly all previous simulations considered aligned disks, in reality, most galaxies» central supermassive black holes are thought to harbor tilted disks — meaning the disk rotates around a separate axis than the black hole itself.

«Understanding how rotating black holes drag the space - time around them and how this process affects what we see through the telescopes remains a crucial, difficult - to - crack puzzle,» said Alexander Tchekhovskoy, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Synchronous orbits exist around all moons, planets, stars and black holes — unless they rotate so slowly that the orbit would be outside their Hill sphere.

«Rotating dusty gaseous donut around an active supermassive black hole.»

Having three detectors also enables researchers to make a rough measurement of the wave's polarization — a property that indicates how the black holes» orbital plane (the plane on which they rotate around each other) is orientated with respect to Earth.

Galactic magnetic fields, they suggest, are produced by a ring of electrically charged gas rotating around a giant black hole at the center of a galaxy.

«This allowed us to measure the time it takes for the black hole and the donor star to rotate around each other, which is 64 days, and to model the velocity of the two objects and the shape of the orbit,» Soria said.