Why Magnetic Fields Make Black Holes Quiet ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Thick Disks, Thin Hopes: Suppressed Capture and Merger Rates in AGN"
The thicker the disk around a black hole, the less often stars and their dense remnants collide inside it.
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Astronomers thought the vicinities of black holes boiled with collisions. But the magnetic field changes everything: it thickens the disk, and then stars barely meet — estimates missed by trillions of times. The silence at galactic centers proved far deeper.
🎯 If the disk stayed flat like a packed dance floor, collisions would thunder nonstop. But magnetic fields transform it into an empty multi-story atrium, where encounters are almost impossible.