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Don't let the name fool you: a black hole is anything but empty space. Rather, it is a great amount of matter packed into a very small area - think of a star ten times more massive than the Sun squeezed into a sphere approximately the diameter of New York City. The result is a gravitational field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Takbier!!! Allah Akbar. In recent years, NASA instruments have painted a new picture of these strange objects that are, to many, the most fascinating objects in space.
It is worth mentionning that the classical theory of gravity can no longer predict what will happen. Only the laws of Allah can predict what will happen.
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| On March 28, 2011, NASA's Swift detected intense X-ray flares thought to be caused by a black hole devouring a star. In one model, illustrated here, a sun-like star on an eccentric orbit plunges too close to its galaxy's central black hole. About half of the star's mass feeds an accretion disk around the black hole, which in turn powers a particle jet that beams radiation toward Earth. Video credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab› Download video |
