Sentences with phrase «strong gravity of the black hole»

The other scenario is the «irruption model» in which a high speed black hole storms through a dense gas and the gas is dragged along by the strong gravity of the black hole to form a gas stream.

The gas is dragged along by the strong gravity of the black hole to form a narrow gas stream.

The stars appear warped due to the strong gravity of the black holes.

Not exact matches

Flashes of X-ray light near the center of the disk result in light echoes that allow astronomers to map the structure of the funnel - like flow, revealing for the first time strong gravity effects around a normally quiescent black hole.

The rapid motions could arise only from the strong gravity of hidden objects: black holes with 4,000 solar masses in M15 and 20,000 solar masses in G1.

«Think of a black hole not simply as a place where gravity is extremely strong but as a place where the fabric of space - time is being pulled continuously into the hole,» says astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman of the University of Colorado, one of the authors of the Wilms paper.

The gap between Einstein and Newton increases as gravity gets stronger and the curvature of space more extreme — black holes being the most extreme case of all.

But something special occurs when pairs of particles emerge near the event horizon — the boundary between a black hole, whose gravity is so strong that it warps space - time, and the rest of the Universe.

IN ITS MODERN FORM, the concept of black holes emerges from Einstein's general theory of relativity, which predicts that if matter is sufficiently compressed, its gravity becomes so strong that it carves out a region of space from which nothing can escape.

A new NASA computer simulation shows that dark matter particles colliding in the extreme gravity of a black hole can produce strong, potentially observable gamma - ray light.

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According to the researchers, there are two possible scenarios in which such a cloud could have been created — the first one that involves the expanding gas shell of the supernova remnant passing by a static black hole, and the other wherein a fast - moving black hole plunges through a cloud of dense gas that is then dragged along by the former's strong gravity.

This object may be a neutron star that contains approximately the mass of two Suns condensed into a sphere only about 20 km (12 mi) across, or alternatively an even more compact black hole, a collapsed star whose gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from it.

But once this is achieved, EHT astronomers expect to be able to resolve an image of Sagittarius A *'s shadow and see small - scale structures surrounding the black hole, confirming some of the most extreme theories for physics in this strong gravity environment and, perhaps, revealing some surprises along the way.

Because of its racetrack orbit deep inside the black hole's gravitational well, S2 is treated as a natural relativity «probe» into this mysterious «strong gravity» environment.

Using this data set, the team has refined the data processing pipelines that will be used to calibrate the data, and also tested many of the analysis tools that will be used to make images and search for signatures of strong gravity effects at the event horizons of supermassive black holes.

Standing outside one of these massive objects in the universe, for instance, there's only darkness — the black hole's gravity is so strong that not even light escapes.