Simulations re-create X-rays emerging from the neighborhood of black holes
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 06:30
in Astronomy & Space
Black holes may be dark, but the areas around them definitely are not. These dense, spinning behemoths twist up gas and matter just outside their event horizon, and generate heat and energy that gets radiated, in part, as light. And when black holes merge, they produce a bright intergalactic burst that may act as a beacon for their collision.
