Boffins No longer Baffled

[Gord_in_Toronto]

All it takes is intelligence, hard work and . . . a supercomputer.

Astrophysicists identified the origin of supermassive black hole flares
Largest-ever simulations suggest flickering powered by magnetic ‘reconnection’.

Astronomers regularly watch black holes flare, but how this happens remains elusive. Identifying where the flares form in a black hole’s anatomy is incredibly difficult. Previous studies using powerful computers could only simulate black hole systems at resolutions too low to see the mechanism that powers the flares.

Now, astrophysicists from Simons Foundation reported that they had solved this mystery. They used computer simulations of unparalleled power and resolution to identify the mechanism that powers black hole flares. They found that the energy released near a black hole’s event horizon during the reconnection of magnetic field lines powers the flares.

No electricity involved.

 

[rjh01]

All it takes is intelligence, hard work and . . . a supercomputer.

Astrophysicists identified the origin of supermassive black hole flares
Largest-ever simulations suggest flickering powered by magnetic ‘reconnection’.



No electricity involved.

You never gave any sources for your quote. Here is one on the topic https://phys.org/news/2022-02-supermassive-black-hole-flares-simulations.html

 

[Puppycow]

Boffins who aren't baffled? Never heard of such a thing!

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

You never gave any sources for your quote. Here is one on the topic https://phys.org/news/2022-02-supermassive-black-hole-flares-simulations.html

My bad. My link should have been:
https://www.techexplorist.com/origin-supermassive-black-hole-flares/44539/



Additionally I should have said that this was in response to the threads that say, "Look here. Here's something that scientists can't explain and therefore my crazy theory is correct".

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Boffins who aren't baffled? Never heard of such a thing!

Just don't read the UK tabloids.

 

[hecd2]

Very colourful paper on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.15115.pdf

 

[tusenfem]

All it takes is intelligence, hard work and . . . a supercomputer.

Astrophysicists identified the origin of supermassive black hole flares
Largest-ever simulations suggest flickering powered by magnetic ‘reconnection’.



No electricity involved.

wow, that was the topic of my master´s thesis "magnetic flaring near accreting black holes" (1989).

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

wow, that was the topic of my master´s thesis "magnetic flaring near accreting black holes" (1989).

Are you a boffin? Were you baffled then? Are you baffled now?

 

[Steve]

wow, that was the topic of my master´s thesis "magnetic flaring near accreting black holes" (1989).

You mean that electricity was involved?

 

[Mike!]

Didn't many of them get killed helping the Rebellion get their hands get some of the Empires biggest secrets?