Daily Archives: August 15, 2013

Cosmic turbulences result in star and black hole formation, HZDR

Aug 15, HZDR: Just how stars and black holes in the Universe are able to form from rotating matter is one of the big questions of astrophysics. What we do know is that magnetic fields figure prominently into the picture. However, our current understanding is that they only work if matter is electrically well conductive – but in rotating discs this isn’t always the case. 

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