Black Hole Emanating Magnetic Lines (IMAGE)

Rochester Institute of Technology

Black Hole Emanating Magnetic Lines

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Magnetic field lines emanate from a pair of supermassive black holes nearing merger within a large gas disk in a simulation by RIT scientists. Periodic light signals in the gas disk could someday help scientists locate supermassive binary black holes.

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RIT Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation

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