Hawking Radiation
A clip from a BBC documentary explaining Hawking radiation around black holes. {source: stevebd1}

A clip from a BBC documentary explaining Hawking radiation around black holes. {source: stevebd1}
Using indirect observations, a team of astronomers has gotten the closest look ever at the region of space around a supermassive black hole.
It is tough to image something that devours any electromagnetic radiation that gets too close to it, light included. But, since black holes warp space so severely, once mass or energy gets too close, it can no longer be observed by someone in our universe. Because of this, astronomers who study black holes are forced to use less direct methods for determining the nature of these beasts.
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Senior Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences. Professor Sonoma State University and Saybrook Graduate School. Author and co-author of over 200 journal articles and technical reports. Author of The Conscious Universe.
Senior Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences. Professor Sonoma State University and Saybrook Graduate School. Author and co-author of over 200 journal articles and technical reports. Author of The Conscious Universe.
Senior Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences. Professor Sonoma State University and Saybrook Graduate School. Author and co-author of over 200 journal articles and technical reports. Author of The Conscious Universe.