Sentences with phrase «said about black holes»

It may not be a Hadron Collider (the less said about black holes and anti-matter the better), but whilst it won't enlighten us as to what happened at the beginning of time, it will shed some light on the subject at hand, and it's a lot funnier.

Not exact matches

«No one wants to talk about the fact that the black hole never really goes away,» says Jerry Colonna, who in 2014 founded Reboot.io, a Boulder company that helps executives address their emotions via intensive workshops.

If you take the time to look up into the sky at night, or amaze at life itself, or think deeply about black holes, or try to understand how complicated something as simple as a tree leaf is, and NOT think there is the possibility of there being angels, demons, God, and Satan... well, then I say you are missing something big.

Asked about this on BBC London yesterday, a visibly angry Khan said repeatedly that the claim was «nonsense» adding that: «TfL haven't said there is a # 1.9 billion black hole [in my fares plan].»

Strominger says the challenge is proving that supertranslations have the enormous storage capacity required to preserve all, not just some, of the information about a black hole's contents.

This rules out the popular «Brown - Bethe» model, which says the maximum mass for a neutron star is about 1.5 solar masses before collapse into a black hole is inevitable, as well as other models.

What gravitational waves from black holes say about supernova physics.

The amplitude and frequency of these waves could reveal the initial mass of the seeds from which the first black holes grew since they were formed 13 billion years ago and provide further clues about what caused them and where they formed, the researchers said.

Researchers suddenly had many more options at their disposal, according to physicist Douglas Stanford of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. «You can analyze things about a black hole you couldn't any other way, like the time evolution of the system,» he says.

When this particular black hole formed, the universe was about half hot and half cold, Fan says.

However Physicist Ted Jacobson of the University of the Maryland in College Park, who suggested in 1999 that analogue radiation could be seen in the laboratory, says that the possibility of gleaning new insights about black holes from the sonic experiment remains «far fetched», for now.

«For instance, a paper talking about protein - folding patterns is a great example of the practice of making models to understand phenomena, while preliminary results from a study of black holes might be a great way to ask students to examine what the next steps would be for the researchers, allowing them to develop hypotheses and design possible experiments,» Lake said.

«This chicken - and - egg problem of what was there first, the galaxy or the black hole, has been pushed all the way to the edge of the universe,» Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski said in a June 15 press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Schawinski was part of a team of researchers that used two renowned orbiting observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, to identify a population of black holes in galaxies at redshift 6, which corresponds to a time about 950 million years after the big bang.

«That's exciting,» says Baganoff, «because it constrains the emission to a zone about 20 times the size of the black hole's event horizon,» the boundary beyond which light can not escape.

Future flares will reveal much about how the black hole feeds, experts say.

«Now we're worrying about black holes and particle colliders and nanotechnology, but there is a lot of science all around,» he says.

This suggests there is something about jellyfish galaxies that makes them the ideal feeding ground for supermassive black holes, she says.

Gebhardt says studying extreme black holes like the one in M87 gives astronomers their best chance of learning more about black hole physics in general.

«Future LIGO observing runs will tell us much more about the universe's population of black holes, and it won't be long before we'll know if the scenario I outline is either supported or ruled out,» Kashlinsky said.

Similarly, if a science - fiction writer has something he wants to say about the interactions between some intelligent extraterrestrials and our present human race, he often finds it necessary to pretend that some means of faster - than - light travel can be found (tachyon transmissions, black - hole transit, «warp drive», or whatever), and Einstein be hanged.

«Understanding how supermassive black holes form tells us how galaxies, including our own, form and evolve, and ultimately, tells us more about the universe in which we live,» said Regan, at Dublin City University.

This supersized black hole is about 10 times heavier and brighter than others discovered from the same time period, says Wu, suggesting it grew extremely rapidly.

«Black holes are a theoretical laboratory for trying out new ideas about gravity,» says Gonzalo Olmo, a Ramón y Cajal grant researcher at the Universitat de València (University of Valencia, UV).

Perhaps what's different about them, McDonald says, is that the cooling of gas flowing into the center is slowed down by the heating effect of a black hole spewing out material from the center of the cluster.

«Unfortunately, all of the big questions we have about black holes are precisely about these internal workings,» he says.

«We were ecstatic by the news announced earlier this year by LIGO about its first detection of colliding black holes,» said Carl L. Rodriguez, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. student in Rasio's research group.

«The emitted gravitational - wave signal and its potential detection will inform researchers about the formation process of the first supermassive black holes in the still very young universe, and may settle some — and raise new — important questions on the history of our universe,» he says.

It comes from the spinning space - time around the black hole and in fact it is not very well known, but that energy is there for the taking — up to 29 percent of the so - called rest mass energy of a spinning black hole is extractable — an d original conjecture, which is not, as I say [said], yet established fact, but certainly taken much more seriously than it was at that time — 10 or 15 percent of the rest mass energy of the black hole, about half of the spin energy, is in practice according to our conjecture, is in fact, the power source for these relativistically moving jets.

«Knowing more about the black holes powering quasars will allow us to know more about how galaxies develop,» said Marta Volonteri, the research director at the Observatory of Paris and the principal investigator of the BLACK project, which investigates how supermassive black holes influenced their host galaxies, especially as quasars, in the early univblack holes powering quasars will allow us to know more about how galaxies develop,» said Marta Volonteri, the research director at the Observatory of Paris and the principal investigator of the BLACK project, which investigates how supermassive black holes influenced their host galaxies, especially as quasars, in the early univBLACK project, which investigates how supermassive black holes influenced their host galaxies, especially as quasars, in the early univblack holes influenced their host galaxies, especially as quasars, in the early universe.

«This is a great accomplishment for the LBT,» said Fan, who chairs the LBT Scientific Advisory Committee and also discovered the previous record holders for the most massive black hole in the early universe, about a fourth of the size of the newly discovered object.

He said that scientists assume most stellar - remnant black holes — which result from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives — will be about the same mass as our sun.

«Based on what we know about star formation in galaxies of different types, we can infer when and how many black holes formed in each galaxy,» Elbert said.

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.

As we noted, the LHC will not destroy the world and as George Musser wrote to me after we recorded the interview, «I said something to the effect that scientists had stocked [stoked] concerns about black holes by saying the LHC would create particles not seen since the big bang, but those particles have been seen since the big bang, namely in natural processes such as cosmic ray collisions; therefore if black holes posed a threat, the universe would already be a goner.»

«Pretty much anything we can learn about black holes has a good chance of leading to deep insights about the laws of physics,» says Daniel Harlow of Princeton University.

Ma says that the monster black holes her team discovered in 2011 in NGC 4889 and NGC 3842, each weighing about 10 billion solar masses, may be quiescent quasars.

«It's like there exists a decoder ring that takes information about a black hole and maps it onto information about fluid mechanics,» Chesler says.

Theoretical physicist and black hole guru Kip Thorne says he gets about one great idea every 10 years.

«It's hard to describe; after years of dreaming about this, writing all these papers saying, «Maybe we could even see two big black holes collide, it would be phenomenal!»

«It's very unusual when a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy actually eats a star, we've probably only seen about 20 of them,» she said.

«Hopefully with the increased sensitivity of future telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array we'll be able to detect jets from other supermassive black holes of this type and discover even more about them,» Dr Anderson said.

«What we haven't discovered is how you can go about making such an enormously supermassive black hole in the Universe's first generation of galaxies,» he says.

It says nothing about how the black holes originally formed or how, in an apparent case of tail wags dog, they managed to control the formation of entire galaxies.

Scientists say that type II supernovae should not produce black holes much bigger than about 30 solar masses — and both black holes were at the high end of that range.

Researchers said the technique could help astronomers address broad questions about galactic evolution, which is intimately tied to the growth and activity of the supermassive black holes that lurk at the heart of most, if not all, galaxies.

When that happens, Kusenko said, the primordial black hole consumes the neutron star from the inside, a process that takes about 10,000 years.

But researchers say they have now confirmed such an object in the nearby galaxy M82 — a black hole about as massive as 400 suns.

«The recent detection appears to be the farthest yet, with the black holes located about three billion light - years away,» said Bose, professor and researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Some models necessarily predict the existence of primordial black holes, so their discovery could help unlock important clues about the universe's early days,» says Tanaka.

«This cloud, about 25 light - years away from the black hole, represents a «missing link» that will help us understand the complex regions around the central black holes in active galaxies,» said Jose - Luis Gomez, the team leader.