Scientists Solve Mystery of Star Formation Near Black Holes 88
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.
Confucius say (Score:1, Interesting)
Confucius say "Bright light near hole remind me of gynecologist."
Re:Oh Please (Score:2, Interesting)
Main three? The top three are # Christianity (2.1 billion), Islam: (1.5 billion), and what the adherents.com refers to as "Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist" (1.1 billion). [adherents.com] Skipping over the secular/none of the above category, Hinduism (900 million) would be next.
Judaism is way down the list at number 12 (14 million). Calling it one of the main three is far off base.
Re:Oh Please (Score:3, Interesting)
...factual evidence...
There is no such thing as factual evidence, only just plain evidence. Evidence can only be believed not proven.
(...evolution itself is considered well supported...)
Evolution is widely believed, but that does not mean it is correct or the only possible interpretation of the evidence.
(...You believe, after all, that you were created from dirt....)
Apparently you don't know that some good fertile dirt capable of growing the good things you like to eat, is not too different from the elemental makeup of your own body. After all, you are what you eat. We all eat what came up out of the ground (dirt). Therefore, this is good evidence for the biblical interpretation of what you are made of, dirt!
Your shame however is, that your mind is filled with dirt by putting other people down who believe differently than you.