EINSTEINS THORIES BREAKDOWN AT THE EVENT HORIZON OF A BLACK H***? Posted by Lee on November 10, 2014 at 2:30pm Send Message View Blog Advertisement Do Einsteins Theories Breakdown at the Event Horizon of a Black H***? --The Exit Door from Our Universe An international team, led by researchers at MIT’s Haystack Observatory, has for the first time measured the radius of a black h*** at the center of a distant galaxy — the closest distance at which matter can approach before being irretrievably pulled into a black h***, which can be billions of times more massive than our sun may reside at the heart of most galaxies. Such supermassive black holes are so powerful that activity at their boundaries can ripple throughout their host galaxies. The scientists linked together radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a telescope array called the “Event Horizon Telescope” (EHT) that can see details 2,000 times finer than what’s visible to the Hubble Space Telescope. These radio dishes were trained on M87, a galaxy some 50 million light years from the Milky Way in the Virgo Cluster (image above). M87 harbors a black h*** 6 billion times more massive than our sun; using this array, the team observed the glow of matter near the edge of this black h*** — a region known as the “event horizon.” “Once objects fall through the event horizon, they’re lost forever,” says Shep Doeleman, assistant director at the MIT Haystack Observatory and research associate at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. “It’s an exit door from our universe. You walk through that door, you’re not coming back.”*Supermassive black holes are the most extreme objects predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity — where, according to Doeleman, “gravity completely goes haywire and crushes an enormous mass into an incredibly close space.” At the edge of a black h***, the gravitational force is so strong that it pulls in everything from its surroundings. However, not everything can cross the event horizon to squeeze into a black h***. The result is a “cosmic traffic jam” in which gas and dust build up, creating a flat pancake of matter known as an accretion disk. This disk of matter orbits the black h*** at nearly the speed of light, feeding the black h*** a steady diet of superheated material. Over time, this disk can cause the black h*** to spin in the same direction as the orbiting material. Caught up in this spiraling flow are magnetic fields, which accelerate hot material along powerful beams above the accretion disk The resulting high-speed jet, launched by the black h*** and the disk, shoots out across the galaxy, extending for hundreds of thousands of light-years. These jets can influence many galactic processes, including how fast stars form. A jet’s trajectory may help scientists understand the dynamics of black holes in the region where their gravity is the dominant force. Doeleman says such an extreme environment is perfect for confirming Einstein’s theory of general relativity — today’s definitive description of gravitation. Read more: ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/einstein-s-thories-breakdown-at-the-event-horizon-of-a-black-ho-1#translate-it#ixzz3ImEWBkGJ Follow us: AshtarCommandCrew on Facebook
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