{"id":72225,"date":"2017-08-28T13:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/black-hole-models-contradicted"},"modified":"2017-08-29T22:27:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T05:27:39","slug":"black-hole-models-contradicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/black-hole-models-contradicted","title":{"rendered":"Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-hole-models-contradicted.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes in space has been contradicted by hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories\u2019 Z machine.<\/p>\n<p>Z, the most energetic laboratory X-ray source on Earth, can duplicate the X-rays surrounding black holes that otherwise can be watched only from a great distance and then theorized about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, emission directly from black holes cannot be observed,\u201d said Sandia researcher and lead author Guillaume Loisel, lead author for a paper on the experimental results, published in August in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>. \u201cWe see emission from surrounding matter just before it is consumed by the black hole. This surrounding matter is forced into the shape of a disk, called an accretion disk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-08-black-hole-contradicted-hands-on-sandia.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;08-black-hole-contradicted-hands-on-sandia.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes in space has been contradicted by hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories\u2019 Z machine. Z, the most energetic laboratory X-ray source on Earth, can duplicate the X-rays surrounding black holes that otherwise can be watched only from a great distance and then [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72252,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72225\/revisions\/72252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}