... Orbiting a Black Hole . ... Credit Copyright: Robert Nemiroff ( MTU ) Explanation: What would it look like to orbit a black hole? ... For one thing, the entire sky would be visible , since even stars behind the black hole would have their light bent to the observer's eye. For another, the sky near the black hole would appear significantly distorted , with more and more images of the entire sky visible increasingly near the black hole. ... Publications with keywords: black hole . ...

... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...

... 2013 July 1 . Orbiting a Black Hole . ... Explanation: What would it look like to orbit a black hole? ... For another, the sky near the black hole would appear significantly distorted , with more and more images of the entire sky visible increasingly near the black hole. ... Orbiting a black hole, as shown in the above scientifically-accurate computer-created illustrative video, will show stars that pass nearly directly behind the black hole as zipping around rapidly near the Einstein ring. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

12feb07 Measuring the SEFD around 1100 Mhz . ... bandpass filter low frequency falloff around 1130 Mhz . ... A 500 Mhz bandpass centered on 1100 Mhz (via the spectrum analyzer) showed a 6 db difference between 1100 Mhz and the noise floor at 1000 Mhz. ... The interim correlator was used with 25 Mhz bands centered at: 1040, 1060, 1080, and 1100 Mhz. ... 1040 Mhz cfr trking src(.gif) There is probably not very much sky signal getting into this band so it looks better than it should. ...

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... HUBBLE UNCOVERS DUST DISK AROUND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE . Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. ... NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth. ...

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... It isn t often that astronomers look into space and see another pair of eyes staring back at them, but that s what we have here. These aren t the eyes of an alien, but a pair of galaxies nicknamed The Eyes because they look like a pair of white eyeballs glowing in the dark! ... At first view, the galaxies don t look a lot like eyes in this photo, but that s because this picture was taken with a very powerful telescope called the Very Large Telescope. ...

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... The twilight zone is not just an old television series. ... Most places on Earth pass through the twilight zone twice a day; the result is an enchanting hour at dawn and dusk of low sunlight and long shadows. ... Before assigning your students to watch a sunrise or sunset, have them try the following activities to develop their global sense. ... Armed with a global sense of our spinning planet, go out to watch the sky as your part of the Earth moves through the twilight zone. ...

... The event horizon is the boundary of a black hole) . ... When the supermassive star implodes (collapses under it?s own gravity) a black hole is formed. Many black holes have been found in the centres of galaxies. ... It was thought that black holes don?t give out any energy at all (except when engulfing stars). ... It is thought that as the stars pass near to the centre, they are pulled in by the black hole and forced to remain orbiting around the black hole. ...

... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on June 29, 2015 | 759 Comments Maybe you have seen one of the alarming videos or emails circulating around the internet claiming that the End is Nigh. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 5, 2014 | ... Posted on October 18, 2013 | ... 3 Comments In February 2013, the asteroid 2012 DA14 flew past the Earth closer than many of the EarthтАЩs geo-stationary satellites. ...

... Posts tagged ?black box? ... Another deduced conclusion from reading preprints listed in arxiv/astro-ph is that astronomers tend to confuse classification and clustering and to mix up methodologies. They tend to think any algorithms from classification or clustering analysis serve their purpose since both analysis algorithms, no matter what, look like a black box . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Astro , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Frequentist , Jargon , Methods , Stat | ...

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... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...