Right again, Einstein: Astronomers unveil black hole's "waterfall" region
Just think of it as a waterfall into oblivion.
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Just think of it as a waterfall into oblivion.
Einstein was right again! Scientists have found the first evidence of general relativity predicted "plunging regions" of space and time where matter inexorably falls into black holes.
The detailed mechanics of how matter falls down onto a black hole from outside the event horizon have been revealed in a new paper.
"Albert Einstein was right," reports CNN. "There is an area at the edge of black holes where matter can no longer stay in orbit and instead falls in, as predicted by his theory of gravity." The proof came by combining NASA's earth-orbiting NuSTAR telescope with the NICER telescope on the Internat...
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