Simulation of Hot Gas Falling into the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way (VIDEO)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

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This is a simulation of hot gas falling into the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The wavelength of the light for these three movies is approximately 1mm. These videos each show different assumptions about the spin of the black hole, the geometry of the magnetic field around the black hole, and various parameters related to plasma physics.

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Lia Medeiros, Chi-Kwan Chan, Feryal Özel, Dimitrios Psaltis

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