A new visualization from NASA shows the now-familiar accretion discs of two black holes transforming each other through vast gravity interactions. Here’s more from Phys.org:
Viewed from near the orbital plane, each accretion disk takes on a characteristic double-humped look. But as one passes in front of the other, the gravity of the foreground black hole transforms its partner into a rapidly changing sequence of arcs. These distortions play out as light from both disks navigates the tangled fabric of space and time near the black holes.
“We’re seeing two supermassive black holes, a larger one with 200 million solar masses and a smaller companion weighing half as much,” said Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who created the visualization. “These are the kinds of black hole binary systems where we think both members could maintain accretion disks lasting millions of years.”
from Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! https://ift.tt/2RwZgqv
via IFTTT
Комментариев нет:
Отправить комментарий