20 April 2017
ALMA research team captures first clear image of accretion disk around a star
... radio telescope in Chile is the first clear image of an accretion disk – earlier technology was not able to obtain clear images. ALMA... years old, and take an image of its rotating accretion disk. ALMA, the most expensive radio telescope ever built, ...
April 2026
An alternative model for pulsars and spiral galaxies
...fields – see figure 2. The central objects - neutron stars or black holes - are surrounded by gravitationally constrained accretion disks (standard features in the models of such objects), which are thought to be responsible for their strong magnetic...
19 February 2020
Molecular oxygen detected for the first time in another galaxy
... their energy from material spiralling in towards an enormous black hole at the center of a galaxy forming a disk called an accretion disk. As the gas and dust spirals closer in, it accelerates and heats through gravitational and frictional forces...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
...GRB have already been undertaken, with phenomena such as the afterglow emission of relativistic jets or strong disk winds in super-Eddington accretion disks have been postulated as the cause of this event. In order to shed more light on the turbulent...
20 September 2017
A new way to 'weigh' extragalactic black holes
... while the remainder gets sucked in. As this material is accreted onto the black hole it can reach a temperature of ... luminosity due to its strong gravitational field and an accretion disk around it," explained Seifina. Seifina and team hope that...
31 October 2018
Black hole status of the Milky Way centre confirmed with striking new data
...the black hole, but instead is swirling around Sagittarius A*’s accretion disk – a turbulent, spiralling belt of gas, dust and...tremendous sensitivity has allowed us to observe the accretion processes in real time in unprecedented detail." Specifically...
