Date: 19/10/2015 01:31:48
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 790131
Subject: Study finds link between young stars and black holes

New study finds common link between young stars and black holes

A research project, led by the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, has identified similarities in the readings from the discs surrounding black holes and young stars, even though the objects have wildly different properties.

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Date: 19/10/2015 05:59:55
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 790142
Subject: re: Study finds link between young stars and black holes

Yes, “vastly different”

> “Researchers have found similarities in the accretion discs around vastly different astronomical objects”

Knew that.

> ULTRACAM – an ultra fast camera capable of taking up to 500 pictures a second simultaneously in three colors. The data used was gathered while the instrument was hosted at the ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the William Herschel Telescope.

Astronomy at 500 frames a second. That’s new. We haven’t seen anything like that since Jocelyn Bell’s discovery of pulsars in radio wavelengths in 1967, and the subsequent discovery of millisecond pulsars.

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