For the first time, astronomers have observed the area right at the edge of a black hole where matter stops orbiting and plunges straight in at near light speed
A strange area around black holes called the “plunging region” has been spotted for the first time. This area, where matter stops circling a black hole and instead falls straight in, was predicted by Albert Einstein ’s theory of, but it has never been observed before. Studying plunging regions could teach us about how black holes form and evolve, as well as reveal new information about the fundamental nature of space-time.
“It’s like a river turning into a waterfall, and until now we’ve only been looking at the river,” saysat the University of Oxford. “If Einstein was wrong, then it would be stable all the way down – there would only be a river.” Now we’ve gotten our first peek at the waterfall, suggesting Einstein was correct.Mummery and his colleagues spotted evidence of the plunging region around a black hole in a binary system called MAXI J1820+070, which is about 10,000 light years from Earth.
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