'This represents an exciting new development in the study of black holes,' astrophysicist Andrew Mummery said.
A prediction originally made by Albert Einstein about a 'plunging region' around black holes has finally been confirmed.Researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom discovered that Einstein's prediction of how gravity works around a black hole does indeed ring true, and that these 'plunging regions' have some of the strongest gravity ever seen, according to a new paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Think of it like a river turning into a waterfall—hitherto, we have been looking at the river. This is our first sight of the waterfall,' study co-author Andrew Mummery, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, said in a statement. 'This final plunge of plasma happens at the very edge of a black hole and shows matter responding to gravity in its strongest possible form.
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