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Posted on 12/07/2017 2:52:50 PM PST by LibWhacker
Black holes are famous for their muscle: an intense gravitational pull known to gobble up entire stars and launch streams of matter into space at almost the speed of light.
It turns out the reality may not live up to the hype.
In a paper published today in the journal Science, University of Florida scientists have discovered these tears in the fabric of the universe have significantly weaker magnetic fields than previously thought.
A 40-mile-wide black hole 8,000 light years from Earth named V404 Cygni yielded the first precise measurements of the magnetic field that surrounds the deepest wells of gravity in the universe. Study authors found the magnetic energy around the black hole is about 400 times lower than previous crude estimates.
The measurements bring scientists closer to understanding how black holes' magnetism works, deepening our knowledge of how matter behaves under the most extreme conditions -- knowledge that could broaden the limits of nuclear fusion power and GPS systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Another thing that bothers me about black holes: time stops in them so the collaspe can never be complete! Must be why you have that weak field. You never quite reach an escape velocity equal to that of light.
Another thing that bothers me about black holes: time stops in them so the collaspe can never be complete! Must be why you have that weak field. You never quite reach an escape velocity equal to that of light.
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