Boffins No longer Baffled

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’.

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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. :duck:

via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/COStlUx