Sentences with phrase «than the event horizon»

Not exact matches

As G2 swings closer to the black hole's event horizon — the point past which even light can not escape — gravity has already stretched its leading edge into a ribbon more than 90 billion miles long, pulling it away from the tail, which isn't yet feeling the black hole's full effects.

But the event horizon is more than just a thought experiment or a tool to merge physics theories.

The Nottingham experiment was based on the theory that an area immediately outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole — a black hole's gravitational point of no return — will be dragged round by the rotation and any wave that enters this region, but does not stray past the event horizon, should be deflected and come out with more energy than it carried on the way in — an effect known as superradiance.

But one astrophysicist has stepped inside and created striking visualizations of passing the event horizon, carried on a waterfall moving faster than the speed of light.

The rotations suggested that, at the event horizon, the field is hundreds of times stronger than Earth's magnetic field, and strong enough to produce the jets that slow the hole's chomping.

For comparison, the event horizon of a black hole like this is about 13 times bigger than the sun, and the accretion disk formed by the disrupted star could extend to more than twice Earth's distance from the sun.

Physicists Roberto Emparan and Marina Martínez from the University of Barcelona have found a simple and exact way to approach the subject of the event horizon of two merging black holes, where one is much smaller than the other.

Itforms when a massive object implodes and shrinks below a criticalcircumference, called the event horizon, and then keeps on implodinguntil all that mass is concentrated in a singularity — a point far, farsmaller than a subatomic particle.

Even outside the event horizon, the hole's gravity increases so fiercely with proximity that the tug on the near side of a passing object can be vastly stronger than the pull on the far side.

New Chandra images of Sagittarius A * (Sgr A *), which is located about 26,000 light - years from Earth, indicate that less than 1 percent of the gas initially within Sgr A *'s gravitational grasp ever reaches the point of no return, also called the event horizon.

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.

I'm certainly no more evil than usual, although it is possible that I hit some kind of evil event horizon a while back and simply can't get more evil.

In any event, in bottom - up investing the strong tendency is to focus on different information, and different time horizons, than is usual for those involved with the general market.

I'm talking about a long event horizon here, so my current (mild) aversion to the US equity market is more about valuation & relative risk / reward, rather than its long - term prospects.

Rather than putting all their eggs in one basket, Nintendo will be showing off their newest wares at more intimate, hands - on events where media and distributors can test drive the upcoming offerings for the 3DS and Wii U. Though sales of Nintendo's newest system remain sluggish despite the company's best efforts to drive gamers to next - gen software, there's no «next big thing» on the horizon, hardware-wise, and it appears that Nintendo's shiny E3 baubles will be limited to new games and software for the current systems.

Super Mario Maker went from being a promising curiosity into a must - have AAA Nintendo exclusive during the event, Star Fox made its long - awaited return with Star Fox Zero, Xenoblade Chronicles X is still on the horizon (though unfortunately delayed), and Yoshi's Woolly World looks to bring an added flair of creativity to the Wii U. Zelda is still coming to the Wii U, but these four games more than fill the gap of Zelda's no - show this year.

Numerous floristic studies across Cretaceous - Paleogene event horizons in North America attest to continent - wide ecological trauma, but elsewhere greater floral turnover is sometimes seen well before the Cretaceous - Paleogene boundary rather than at it.

Asimov's Psychohistory, the three laws of robotics, Alien invaders of many sorts - good, bad, and indifferent SETI equation The Dean Drive Faster than light drive Using wormholes Going through an event horizon You forgot the A bomb, predicted a couple years before the first one was used.

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