Johns Hopkins is again at the center of groundbreaking research. One of their astronomers had a simple idea, and as Mike Schuh reports, it led to a once in a lifetime discovery about black holes.
Black holes are out there sucking up stars like cosmic vaccuum
cleaners. But they’re invisible. We’ve never seen them work in real
time… until now. Until a Hopkins-led team found a star caught by a black
hole’s gravity.
“And when it got really close, the gravitational force of the black
hole literally ripped it apart, stretched it into a thin stream,” Dr.
Suvi Gezari, a Hopkins astronomer, said.
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6 comments:
What's so great about that -- we have one right here in Salisbury!
There is a misstatement in the article. NOTHING gets "spit OUT" of a black whole. NOTHING.
11:47, you will have to bring your proof with you on that statement. Everything has to be somewhere.
Oh, and it's "Hole", not whole.
Imclain- Hopefully in November we can see this country spit out of a black hole.
Just this past Thursday,4/4,major networks announced that a 17 year old high school student had discovered a cure for cancer.Ever notice how a year later no one hears any more about these people?Well I'll tell you why.Huge profits lie in reasearch and developement.Any actual answer or cure will always be shelved.We are given just enough info to continue the funding.Astronomy and cancer research are heavily funded by private foundations and the government.
6:56....Sorry for the misspelling. But the FACT that nothing (well, MAYBE nothing) escapes from a black hole has been mathematically proven, by literally hundreds of research physicists. The animator of the phenomenon mistook the jets of matter that seem to be "ejected" (but are not) from a black hole as being 'spit out'. He's wrong. As far as "everything has to be somewhere", it IS somewhere --- its INSIDE the black hole. Want some interesting reading that might help you understand astrophysics and more specifically, black holes? Google "Hawking radiation" (explaning in quantum terms how a black hole could actually emit radiation) or read "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, (also the originator of the theory that bears his name). But beware, its some deep thinking stuff. It might hurt a bit.
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