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Below: supermassive black hole devouring a star in galaxy RX J1242−11 – X-ray (left) and optical (right). [98] Unambiguous dynamical evidence for supermassive black holes exists only for a handful of galaxies; [99] these include the Milky Way, the Local Group galaxies M31 and M32, and a few galaxies beyond the Local Group, such as NGC 4395.
The Black Hole is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Gary Nelson and produced by Walt Disney Productions.The film stars Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins and Ernest Borgnine, while the voices of the main robot characters are provided by Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens (both uncredited).
To create the visual effects for the wormhole and a rotating, supermassive black hole (possessing an ergosphere, as opposed to a non-rotating black hole), Thorne collaborated with Franklin and a team of 30 people at Double Negative, providing pages of deeply sourced theoretical equations to the engineers, who then wrote new CGI rendering ...
Films about black holes, regions of spacetime wherein gravity is so strong that no matter or electromagnetic energy (e.g. light) can escape it. Pages in category "Films about black holes" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Supermassive black holes sometimes shoot vast jets of high-energy particles into space, but no such jet has been detected in this instance, according to astrophysicist and study co-author Lorena ...
Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye.. New observations of several ...
Since 2011, she has been a faculty member in the Astrophysical Sciences department at Princeton where she is currently a Professor of astrophysics. [ 4 ] Her broad research interests include measurements of black hole masses, the connection between supermassive black holes and galaxies, stellar and gas kinematics of galactic nuclei, and diffuse ...
Sagittarius A*, abbreviated as Sgr A* (/ ˈ s æ dʒ ˈ eɪ s t ɑːr / SADGE-AY-star [3]), is the supermassive black hole [4] [5] [6] at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way.Viewed from Earth, it is located near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, about 5.6° south of the ecliptic, [7] visually close to the Butterfly Cluster (M6) and Lambda Scorpii.