... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... CfA ), ASCA , ISAS , NASA Explanation: What does a black hole look like? If alone, a black hole would indeed appear quite black, but many black hole candidates are part of binary star systems . So how does a black hole binary system look different from a neutron star binary system ? ... A black hole system so equipped would appear much darker than a similar neutron star system. ... Publications with words: black hole . ... Journey to the Center of the Galaxy . ... Binary Black Hole in 3C 75 . ...

... January 15, 1997 . Black Holes Signature From Advective Disks . ... If alone, a black hole would indeed appear quite black, but many black hole candidates are part of binary star systems . So how does a black hole binary system look different from a neutron star binary system ? ... The difference is caused by the hot gas from the ADAF disk falling through the event horizon of the black hole and disappearing - gas that would have emitted much light were the central object only a neutron star. ...

... SS433 is a close binary system, one star is a supergiant, a second one is a black hole. ... Even a black hole cannot accept such an enormous mass flux, a supercritical accretion disk appears, all the excess gas glows up to several tens of thousands degrees and is ejected off the disk with enormous velocities. ... SAO researchers have found an evidence of the supercritical accretion onto a black hole in SS433, which follows from a brightness variability of the SS433 disk. ...

... HUBBLE UNCOVERS DUST DISK AROUND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE . Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. ... NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

... Gilfanov, M. and Merloni, A. Observational Appearance of Black Holes in X-Ray Binaries and AGN . ... Accretion onto black holes powers most luminous compact sources in the Universe. ... Accretion onto supermassive black holes in AGN and stellar- and (possibly) intermediate mass black holes in X-ray binaries and ultra-luminous X-ray sources in star-forming galaxies can explain most, if not all, of the observed brightness of the cosmic X-ray background radiation. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 1999 > bh99 . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... ESO Data . ... Science in Garching . ... ESO Headquarters, Garching bei MУМnchen, Germany . The aim of this workshop is to bring together astrophysicists working on the rather separate fields of stellar-mass and supermassive black holes, with emphasis on the formation, population, physics, and environments of black holes. ...

... Abubekerov M.K., Lipunov V.M. "The Lower Temperature Limits Of Accretors" Astronomy Reports, 2003, Vol. 47, Issue 8, pp.679-684. ... Abubekerov M.K., Antokhina E.A., Cherepashchuk A.M. "The Masses of X-ray Pulsars in Binary systems with OB Supergiants" Astronomy Reports, 2004, Vol. ... Abubekerov M.K., Antokhina E.A., Cherepashchuk A.M., Shimanskii V.V. "The Mass of the Compact Object in the Low-Mass X-ray Binary 2S 0921-630" Astronomy Reports Astronomy Reports, 2006, Vol.50, Issue 7, pp.544-552. ...

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... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...

The radius of the event horizon of a black hole with the mass of the Sun would be about 3 kilometers, about the same size as your city, town or village. If the Earth could be compressed into a black hole, the radius of its event horizon would be 1/330,000 of this, because the mass of the Earth is 1/330,000 times the mass of the Sun. ... 30,000,000 . ... 20,000 . ... Black hole event horizon . ... MYTH: All stars collapse to become black holes upon their death. ... MYTH: Black holes are very dense. ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 18 February 1997, 1100 UT (RR) . Black aurora is a lack of auroral emission in a small, well-defined region within an otherwise uniform, diffuse background or within auroras exhibiting a degree of shear behaviour intermediate between that of diffuse and discrete aurora (e.g., Davis, 1978). It appears to be a common feature of the midnight sector during late substorm recovery phase (Trondsen and Cogger, 1997). ... 30 , 371-380, 1978. ... 102 , 363-378, 1997. ...

... Panoramic spectroscopy of galaxies with star-formation regions. a study of SBS 1202 + 583" . Hakopian, S. A.; Balayan, S. K.; Dodonov, S. N.; Moiseev, A. V.; Smirnova, A. A. 2012, Astrophysics, v.55, p.1 . The origin of gas in extended narrow-line regions of nearby Seyfert galaxies - I. NGC 7212" . ... Smirnova, A. A. ; Moiseev, A. V.; Afanasiev, V. L. 2010, MNRAS, v.408, p.400 (astro-ph/1006.5547) . ... Studying of some Seyfert galaxies by means of panoramic spectroscopy." ...

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... Black holes are found at the centres of galaxies which are similar in size to our own Milky Way Galaxy or larger. When black holes collide and merge they form supermassive black holes which are events among the most powerful in the universe. ... 55, No. 1, pages 1-5, 'Observational Effects of Strong Gravity in Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes' . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Black Holes And RedShift . ... Perhaps black holes really are the reproductive means of the universe.Could the black hole of a Quasar red-shift the electromagnetic energy trying to escape it? ... Perhaps black holes treat electromagnetic energy the same way. ... No one really knows enough about Quasars and black holes to say for sure but ask yourself this: Why would all the Quasars in the universe be moving away from the Milky Way? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Astronomy suffers from the `Static Illusion' - because astronomical changes usually occur over intervals much longer than a human lifetime they appear static. This illusion affects our understanding of how astronomical objects work. ... Observations at the 1/10th arcsecond level with HST and near-infrared adaptive optics on ground based telescopes are beginning to create movies of `astronomy in motion'. ... Proto-star HH-30 expanding jet HST.. Young binary, XZ Tau, expanding `bubbles' HST.. ...

I recieved PhD in 1998 and now I'm a reseacher at the division of Relativistic Astrophysics at Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University. ... Isolated neutron stars and black holes. Their evolution, distribuion, accretion onto INSs and BHs . ... My 4th year work (B.S.): Accretion onto isolated neutron stars and accretion in X-ray pulsars. ... My diploma (M.S.): Binary evolution after the starformation burst at the Galactic Center, Moscow State University, 1995 January. ...