Sentences with phrase «spinning magnetic disk»
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Because a disk is composed of ionized gas and dust, a spinning stars magnetic field gets caught up in it and the result is like a spoon being dragged through molasses, Rebull says.
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The twisting magnetic fields will act as drive belts, tapping the enormous energy of the spinning disk to launch powerful jets of gas along the axis of the disk and back out into space.
The most popular explanation of how jets form is that the fast - spinning accretion disk, which contains charged particles, will produce a powerful magnetic field that is in contact with the black hole.
These amazing outflows traverse distances larger than galaxies» 35 and are powered by the gigantic magnetic field generated by the spinning disk of matter spiraling in toward the event horizon.
A popular theoretical model says that magnetic - field lines in the spinning disk are twisted tightly together and confine the fast - moving particles into narrow «jets» streaming from the poles of the disk.