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Showing posts with label black hole in universe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black hole in universe. Show all posts

Monday, 29 October 2012

Super-Massive Black Hole Inflates Giant Bubble


Super-Massive Black Hole Inflates Giant Bubble

 
Some of the active black holes accrete. But I do not believe the content of the black hole particle emission is in a tight, traveling almost at the speed of light. When the river is low, a weak bubble can swallow the whole galaxy is born. Invisible to optical telescopes, bubble at radio frequencies is very significant. International LOFAR Telescope NEW - an international collaboration designed and built by ASTRON - such as it is suitable for detection of low-frequency emissions.

Such a bubble astronomers ever produced one of the best images, LOFAR from 20 to 160 MHz frequencies are used for detection. He is of great importance as a result ", Francesco de Gasperin, the main author of the study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics is general says." It's a lot of potential LOFAR shows, and the black hole, host, Galaxy, and his close relationship between environment provides compelling evidence. "

LOFAR photo was taken during the test phase, and giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo 87 Messier target is at the center of a galaxy cluster. 2000 times the space in the center of our galaxy and one of the most massive black holes discovered till now hosts more than six billion times the mass of our sun with a group.

"This is the first time such high-quality images at these frequencies is possible", Board Chairman Prof. Heino Falcke, says study co-author and "ILT was observed that a challenge - we did not expect such high Best results so early in LOFAR commissioning phase to achieve. "

To determine the age of bubble, writers (USA) in Mexico a huge row, and Bonn (Germany) 100 m Effelsberg radio telescope at different frequencies in the radio add comments. Amazing bubble team found that young, only 40 million years, which is a cosmic time scale is only once.with the particles refilled.

"Especially interesting", Andrea Garching in Physics Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial, Gasperin doctoral work under the supervision of the Director of Merloni says that the energy conversion is violence that occurs very close results provide clues Black hole Black hole jets in this case especially effective to accelerate, and much less effective in producing visible emissions. '

Francesco de Gasperin Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in part of his PhD and Excellence Cluster Universe as demonstrated in the study. Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg is now de Gasperin.

Sunday, 2 September 2012

Computers

Computers

 
Computers play a very important part in our lives now and as with so many recent inventions, no one person can claim to have sole responsibility for their invention.
However, one man is credited with having the vision to see that one day a general-purpose computing machine would exist. This man was Charles Babbage and he first floated his idea in 1834 !! Five years after he died in 1871, Lord Kelvin, a Scottish physicist, also raised the idea of building a machine that could cope with general problems. But many years were to pass before a machine was produced which was capable of doing what Babbage and Kelvin wanted.
In 1930, MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) built a "differential analyser". The team that did this was lead by Vannevar Bush. This machine could solve differential equations that came up in electrical engineering - but it was so big that it filled a whole room.
The major breakthrough in computing came when scientists started to use the binary system in electrical devices. Binary allows every number to be expressed as a series of ones or zeros and electrical devices see binary numbers as being "on" or "off".
In 1938, a German mathematician, Konrad Zuse, invented Z1. This machine had a binary-based operating method, a processor unit and memory and for this reason some historians see Z1 as being the first computer. Z1 lead to Z2 and Z3. The last one is considered to be the world’s first programmable calculator. World War Two interrupted the work done by Zuse.
In America, Howard Aitkins and his team at Harvard University, completed Mark 1 in 1943. This 5 tons machine could perform basic mathematical functions. It also attracted the attention of International Business Machines (IBM). This invention occurred during a very important era for computer development : World War Two.
During this war, Britain wanted to develop a computing machine that would break the secret codes used by the Nazis. Some of the country’s most brilliant mathematicians were based at Bletchley Park, including the outstanding Alan Turing. Even before the war, Turing had attempted to develop a machine capable of performing all the operations of mathematics. Such a machine would have been able to crack even the most difficult of secret codes.
By December 1943, a new device was invented at Bletchley Park called "Colossus". It was not a true computer but it did show that machines could do a lot more than handle numerical problems.

Colossus at Bletchley Park
In America during World War Two, Presper Eckhart and John Mauchly invented ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyser and Computer). This vast machine - it weighed 30 tonnes - was finished in November 1945 and contained 18,000 valves. It could work 1000 times faster than any of its predecessors. It was basically just a calculator but it did prove to scientists that a lot of valves put together could work effectively.
Some historians believe that the first true computer was developed by a team at Manchester University lead by Dr Freddie Williams. Their invention was commercially produced by the firm Ferranti and was known as Ferranti Mark 1. This was in 1951.
America also produced its first commercial computer in 1951 called UNIVAC; its first important use was to predict the outcome of the US Presidential election race in 1952.