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Do whirlpools of gas flip-flop as they are sucked into black holes? According to a new simulation powered by TeraGrid, the answer is “Yes.”
The accretion disk of a black hole forms from gas attracted by the black hole’s massive gravitational pull. For the last 20 years, astrophysicists have debated whether the whirlpool-like motion of the accretion disk will periodically reverse motion, a behavior called ‘flip-flop.’
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