Cosmic slurp: Supercomputers help astronomers understand and predict how black holes swallow starsDate:
April 14, 2014
Source:
University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center
Scientist have recently been seeing lots of light coming from the center of many galaxies that are claimed to be not active. Using very good telescopes, the scientists have found out that the light is coming from a black hole "eating" a star that is orbiting to close. Tidal disruptions are when stars orbit to close to black holes and they get
usurped. Scientist are using supercomputers to simulate the tidal disruption to better understand the dynamics of it. Doing this will allow scientists to find out other examples of tidal disruptions.
April 14, 2014
Source:
University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center
Scientist have recently been seeing lots of light coming from the center of many galaxies that are claimed to be not active. Using very good telescopes, the scientists have found out that the light is coming from a black hole "eating" a star that is orbiting to close. Tidal disruptions are when stars orbit to close to black holes and they get
usurped. Scientist are using supercomputers to simulate the tidal disruption to better understand the dynamics of it. Doing this will allow scientists to find out other examples of tidal disruptions.
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