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Julian Krolik, professor of
physics and astronomy in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and
his companion researchers used a mixture of supercomputer simulations and old-style
hand-written calculations to disclose their results. Supported by 40 years of theoretic
development, the team presented for the first time that high-energy light release
is not only possible, but is an unavoidable result of gas being drawn into a
black hole.
“Black holes are truly exotic,
with extraordinarily high temperatures, incredibly rapid motions and gravity
exhibiting the full weirdness of general relativity,” Krolik said. “But our
calculations show we can understand a lot about them using only standard physics
principles.”
The group’s work was published
in the print version of Astrophysical Journal. His coworkers on the study
include Jeremy Schnittman, a research astrophysicist from the NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, and Scott Noble, an assistant research expert from the
Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation at RIT. Schnittman was principal
author.
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