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Scientists Solve Mystery of Star Formation Near Black Holes
eonlabs writes "A new paper has been published on the formation of stars in close proximity to a supermassive black hole. Their formation has not been well understood until now, but with the help of a year of supercomputer time, scientists have been able to model the interstellar processes needed to produce them. The results not only match up well with earlier observations, but provide clues as to how their formation is remotely possible. It also helps clear up previous research in this area. 'The simulations...followed the evolution of two separate giant gas clouds up to 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, as they fell towards the supermassive black hole. ...The disrupted clouds form into spiral patterns as they orbit the black hole... In these conditions, only high mass stars are able to form and these stars inherit the eccentric orbits from the elliptical disc.'"
The paper itself was published in Science, but you'll need a subscription to read more than the abstract.
My star formed near a super massive black hole last night. Her name was Latrina.......
That's ok, nobody reads the article anyway. People on Slashdot think they are right and no article, read or unread, can change this.
Incorrect. Only myself and those that agree with me are actually right.
clearly god did it :)
clearly Joe Pesci did it :)
There; you mde an accidental typo that just had to be corrected.
My brain is super dense. Does that count?
Is parent really a troll? If so, he did a much better job than his parent.
Her parent. In threads, it is always a daughter. Unless it is a zombie, in which case you can assign either gender. The 'daughers' of zombies can also be referred to as spawn (you can use either gender), and the 'parents' of spawn can be referred to as overlords (GP = great overlord, GGP = grand overlord, GGP = dire overlord, and so on).