


Two brothers and their buddies set out for one last hunting trip, parents grapple with the fairness of their sons short years, a young couple goes into labor, a woman aims to spend her last moments alone. The blue lines are gravitational waves, ripples in time. Four story lines set in the hours before a black hole swallows earth, play out with varying congruence. Image to left: Swift Spacecraft Animation - Swift, launched in November 2004, is a NASA mission in partnership with the Italian Space Agency and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, United Kingdom and is managed by NASA Goddard. The black hole was discovered by a team of global scientists led by Xue-Bing Wu at Peking University, China, as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which provided imagery data of 35 per cent of the northern hemisphere sky. Four story lines set in the hours before a black hole swallows earth, play out with varying congruence. J10:20am Updated This illustration provided by Carl Knox depicts a black hole, center, swallowing a neutron star, upper left. A black hole is the core remains of an even larger exploded star, over 25 times the mass of the sun. "Basically, you have two forces balanced together which sets up a limit for growth, which is much smaller than what we found," said Bian. The flare is a signature of the galaxys central black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. The arrow in each image points to the galaxy. However, as mass falls toward the black hole, it will be heated, creating radiation pressure, which pushes the mass away from the black hole. These images, taken with NASAs Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii, show a brightening inside a galaxy caused by a flare from its nucleus. (Zhaoyu Li/Shanghai Astronomical Observatory background image from Yunnan Observatories)īlack holes grow, scientific theory suggests, as they absorb mass. Answer: Black Holes swallow anything that gets trapped in its voracious gravitational pull. The silly, vibrant artwork is sure to make stargazers of all ages smile and start a love of science in your baby. The newly discovered quasar SDSS J0100+2802 is the one with the most massive black hole and the highest luminosity among all known distant quasars. Using the familiar rhythm of 'There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,' follow along as the black hole swallows up the universe and everything that exists in it, from the biggest to the smallest pieces of matter.
