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Credit & Copyright: J. Bergeron, Sky & Telescope Magazine
Explanation:
Gravity can do more than floor you.
According to
recent measurements of a
star system thought to contain a black hole, it can spin you too.
This effect, called frame-dragging, is most prominent near massive, fast spinning objects.
Now, a team led by
W. Cui
(MIT)
has used the orbiting
Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer to search for it near a system
thought to contain a
black hole.
Cui's team claim that matter in this system gets caught up
and spun around the
black hole at just the rate expected from frame-dragging.
Such discoveries help scientists better understand
gravity itself.
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Publications with keywords: black hole
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 November 24 Á Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- APOD: 2024 October 1 Á Porphyrion: The Longest Known Black Hole Jets
- APOD: 2024 June 16 Á Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star
- Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge
- The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole
- APOD: 2024 May 8 Á Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk
- APOD: 2024 May 7 Á Black Hole Accreting with Jet