The scientists developed the so-called “Massive Generator for Plasma Burst Experiments,” or “Magpie,” a pulsed energy generator designed to produce a pulse of current of up to 1.8 million amperes in 240 nanoseconds.
A research team led by scientists from “Imperial College London” has managed to create a rotating disk of plasma in the laboratory to simulate disks orbiting black holes.
And you know Black holes They are objects that cannot radiate anything because they have a gravitational force strong enough to pull anything that crosses their outer limits, even if it is light, the fastest matter in the universe.
Therefore, a person entering a black hole means being completely cut off from this universe, because anything he tries to send to us, be it a light or a radio signal or even his loud scream, does not leave the black hole, but bounces back inside it.
For this reason, a black hole appears to us in recent telescope images as a completely black ball orbiting around it, surrounded by luminous rings of matter located outside the black hole’s boundaries.
The matter surrounding the black hole may fall into it, or it may remain intact, or it may escape from orbit and travel into space at great speed, and is not yet known precisely by the scientists working on it. commodity.
Those rings that surround the black hole are called “Disk provided(accretion disk), are masses of material that rub so tightly against each other that, due to intense heat, they change to their plasma state, a state of matter in which electrons are separated from the nuclei of atoms. They are completely free-swimming, and the state of the object has unique magnetic properties that scientists pay to study carefully.
Forming the circumference of a black hole
According to study In a new paper published by the research team in the journal Physical Review Letters, scientists have developed a pulsed power generator designed to generate a current pulse called the “Massive Generator for Plasma Explosion Experiments,” or MAGPIE. A maximum of 1.8 million amperes in 240 nanoseconds.
The generator has 4 amplifiers, each with 24 capacitors. At maximum power, the generator produces an output voltage of 2.4 million volts, which accelerates and accelerates 8 jets of plasma and collides with the periphery of the black hole.
According to Press release An official at Imperial College London said researchers will soon begin using Magpie to apply a leading theory in cosmology, which proposes that instabilities in the magnetic fields of plasma swirling around a black hole cause severe friction. Thus, they fall into the black hole.
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