Sentences with phrase «swirling around a black hole»

The researchers modeled the resulting accretion disc — an elliptical disc of stellar debris swirling around the black hole — along with its probable speed, radius, and rate of infall, or speed at which material falls onto the black hole.

The black holes that we can observe directly through their radiant emission are mostly in a configuration where gas swirls around the black hole in the form of an accretion disk and that accretion disk — most of the mass is going to be in an ionized form, and then some of that gas gets expelled from the environment around the black hole, while it is still outside the black hole, it gets squirted out in the form of an outflow, a wind like the solar wind and then [a] much faster, collimated outflow called a jet.

Artist's illustration of turbulent winds of gas swirling around a black hole.

Deep in the heart of the spiral Milky Way galaxy, a hot vortex of matter swirls around a black hole more than a million times as massive as the sun.

Not exact matches

The observation provides the first evidence for black holes that does not depend on watching hot gas or stars swirl around them at far greater distances.

Quasars are bright disks of gas and dust swirling around supermassive black holes.

Our black hole's violent meeting with G2 began last year, and as it continues, it should give astronomers a chance to peer inside the galactic center — the neighborhood around the black hole — rather than just simulate the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding it.

Alfred Goldhaber of Stony Brook University in New York says that if black holes have charged plasma swirling around them, a photon's slowed movement through the plasma could make it behave as if it has mass, ruining the calculations.

But the black holes in the Whirlpool have temperatures of less than 4 million degrees Celsius, indicating that the clouds of hot gas swirling around them are bigger and more spread out.

Material that gets too close to a black hole is caught in its powerful gravity and swirls around the compact powerhouse until it eventually falls in.

Excited, because it could help resolve paradoxes swirling around those most befuddling of cosmic objects, black holes, and perhaps provide a route to a unified theory of physics.

(Black holes themselves are invisible, but astronomers detect them by looking for the brilliantly hot gas that swirls around them before getting sucked in.)

«We know that these showers are linked to the jets because they're found in filaments and tendrils that wrap around the jets or hug the edges of giant bubbles that the jets have inflated,» said Tremblay, «And they end up making a swirling «puddle» of star - forming gas around the central black hole.»

As a virtual observer moves around the black hole, it could see the swirling spacetime constantly creating and annihilating images of individual stars.

At first glance, a swirling vortex of water seems similar to a black hole: Both take hold of the matter around them, sucking in and trapping whatever drifts too close.

Since the star was orbiting the black hole before it was ripped apart, its remains continue to swirl around the hole, which weighs a million suns, as they gradually get swallowed up.

After processing and correlating the data, they will obtain either a glorious silhouette of the black hole against the brilliant matter swirling around it or, as in earlier attempts using fewer telescopes, a tantalizing blur.

In most cases, a black hole is found by looking for X-rays coming from a hot disk of material swirling around it.

Next month, astronomers will harness radio telescopes across the globe to create the equivalent of a single Earth - spanning dish — an instrument powerful enough, they hope, to image black holes backlit by the incandescent gas swirling around them.

These «raindrops» eventually cool down enough to transform into star - forming clouds of cold molecular gas that end up making «a swirling «puddle» of star - forming gas around the central black hole.»

The black hole's existence can be inferred from its energetic effects on an envelope of gas swirling around it at extremely high velocities.

Subsequently, matter from the debris of the merger that swirls rapidly around the newly created new black hole has been modelled as amplifying the strength of the combined magnetic field left over by the neutron stars after their merger over the next 11 milliseconds.

In 2000, astronomers released an exciting discovery using Hubble spectroscopic data of gas and stars swirling around supermassive black holes in more than 30 galaxies.