... Spin up of a Supermassive Black Hole . ... This prediction was tested recently by NASA's NuSTAR and ESA's XMM satellites by observing the supermassive black hole at the center of spiral galaxy NGC 1365 . ... Since matter randomly falling into the black hol e should not spin up a black hole this much, the NuSTAR and XMM measurements also validate the existence of the surrounding accretion disk . ... Publications with keywords: black hole - accretion disk . ... Two Black Holes Merge . ...

... 2013 March 12 . Spin up of a Supermassive Black Hole . ... If any object made of regular matter spins too fast -- it breaks apart. ... This prediction was tested recently by NASA's NuSTAR and ESA's XMM satellites by observing the supermassive black hole at the center of spiral galaxy NGC 1365 . ... Since matter randomly falling into the black hol e should not spin up a black hole this much, the NuSTAR and XMM measurements also validate the existence of the surrounding accretion disk . ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... 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. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Mercury Magazine . ... Editorial: "Metric Matters": A Short Play . ... Professor: And you still neglect your units in your work. ... Engineer 1 - 52-year-old male NASA engineer. ... From the right comes a spacecraft moving quickly. ... Despite being convenient "human" units, English units should be put aside in favor of metric units (and with normally ten fingers and ten toes, we should find metric "human" enough). ...

... Black holes are found at the centres of galaxies which are similar in size to our own Milky Way Galaxy or larger. When black holes collide and merge they form supermassive black holes which are events among the most powerful in the universe. ... 55, No. 1, pages 1-5, 'Observational Effects of Strong Gravity in Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes' . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 1995, Cycle 5, GO-5847 , PI, 9 orbits. The nuclear disk in the E4 radio galaxy NGC 7052: evidence for a central black hole? ... 1996/97, Cycle 6, GO-6537 , CoI, 8 orbits. ... Nuclear kinematics of the dense globular cluster M15 . ... A Census of Nuclear Star Clusters in Late-Type Spiral Galaxies . ... A Census of Nuclear Star Clusters in Late-Type Spiral Galaxies: II - Spectroscopy and Stellar Populations . ... The Ages of Nuclear Star Clusters in Early-type Spiral Galaxies . ...

... 2006: . ... Components of the systems are low mass stars and white dwarfs. For 14 pairs orbit parameters were calculated and masses and luminosities of components were determined for the first time. ... As a result of a multifrequency monitoring of the variability of a micro quasar Cyg X-3 (X-ray binary system which probably consists of a black hole and a high mass Wolf-Rayet star) a high activity period was registered for the first time in the last 4 years. ... Archive . ...

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Blackholes I | ... Use Light Radited From Stars Orbiting The Black Hole . ... My understanding is that that is how black holes are detected. Photons that are claimed to be circling a black hole are actually within the event horizon. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Dr. Victoria I. Prokhorenko . ... Situation Analysis of The "PROGNOZ" Orbit for Solar- Terrestrial Space Experiments. ... Studies of Satellite Situations Mission. ... A Situation Analysis of the Orbits of the Tail and Auroral Probes in the "INTERBALL" Project. ... Specific Tasks of Multiple Scale Plasma Measurement in Regatta- Cluster System (co-authors S. Savin and L. Zelenyi)- In Book: Proceedings of an International Workshop on Space Plasma Physics Investigations by Cluster and Regatta. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes | ... This is the first time such a fast jet has been seen from anything other than a black hole. ... Jets are believed to emerge, not from black holes themselves, but from their тАШaccretion diskтАЩ тАУ the belt of dismembered stars and gas that a black hole drags in towards it. ...

... Search By Name Enter coordinates Use current location . ... Star Atlas . ... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... Spanish researchers discover the first black hole orbiting a т??spinningт?? star . The newly discovered black hole orbits a star that spins so fast that its surface speed exceeds 620,000 mph (1 million km/h). ... Spanish scientists have discovered the first binary system ever known to consist of a black hole and a spinning star or more accurately, a Be-type star. ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... Smithsonian Lead Scientist, SAO/Southampton Masters Program . ... Chandra Uncovers New Evidence For Event Horizons Surrounding Black Holes . ... XTE J1118+480: Chandra Pinpoints Edge Of Accretion Disk Around Black Hole . ... Astronomers Closing in on Black Holes . ... A Black Hole Greater Than 6 Msolar in the X-Ray Nova XTE J1118+480 . Complete and Simultaneous Spectral Observations of the Black Hole X-Ray Nova XTE J1118+480 . Aql X-1: Garcia etal 99, . ... Home" Home Page . ...

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... Acceleration of particles in the vicinity of a massive black hole We propose a two-step mechanism for charged particle acceleration in the magnetosphere of a massive black hole surrounded by an accretion disk. Particles first gain energy by stochastic process during the accretion phase. It is shown that effective proton acceleration up to energies eV is possible in the turbulent magnetized accretion disk. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Quasars and Black Holes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... This series of three images shows an artistт??s impression of a bright т??blobт?? of gas in the disc of material surrounding the black hole in the centre of our Galaxy, Sagittarius A*. ... Black hole , Sagittarius A* . ... Unspecified : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Black Hole . ...

... Abubekerov M.K., Lipunov V.M. "The Lower Temperature Limits Of Accretors" Astronomy Reports, 2003, Vol. 47, Issue 8, pp.679-684. ... Abubekerov M.K., Antokhina E.A., Cherepashchuk A.M. "The Masses of X-ray Pulsars in Binary systems with OB Supergiants" Astronomy Reports, 2004, Vol. ... Abubekerov M.K., Antokhina E.A., Cherepashchuk A.M., Shimanskii V.V. "The Mass of the Compact Object in the Low-Mass X-ray Binary 2S 0921-630" Astronomy Reports Astronomy Reports, 2006, Vol.50, Issue 7, pp.544-552. ...