Sentences with phrase «shooting out of the black hole»

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A gamma ray burst is thought to emerge when jets of hot matter moving at near — light - speed shoot out along the rotational axis of the newborn black hole, beaming radiation into space like a lighthouse.

The simulations reveal that the recoil from the combining of black holes could shoot the resulting merged supermassive black hole right out of its galaxy.

A great mystery for scientists is that there's evidence of powerful jets of electrons and protons that shoot out of the top and bottom of some black holes.

The star's gas has been falling into the black hole, causing enormous amounts of energy to be released in the form of high - energy particles shooting out like a jet.

In addition to accretion disks, black holes also have winds and incredibly bright jets erupting from them along their rotation axis, shooting out matter and radiation at nearly the speed of light.

Astronomers have seen them shooting out of young stars just being formed, X-ray binary stars and even the supermassive black holes at the centers of large galaxies.

By using a telescope orbiting above the Earth, an Australian scientist has been able to get ten times closer to the core of a powerful jet of plasma shooting out from a black hole.

While the planets of a catapulted sun might follow it and continue orbiting, the black - hole sun's planets might just be shot out of their orbit [source: Harvard - Smithsonian].

The results suggest that supermassive black holes send out beams of X-rays when their surrounding coronas — sources of extremely energetic particles — shoot, or launch, away from the black holes.