Black hole simulations on XSEDE supercomputers present new
view of jets and accretion disks
Voracious absences at the center of galaxies, black holes
shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful
gravitational pull and explosive ejections of energy.
"Over its lifetime, a black hole can release more
energy than all the stars in a galaxy combined," said Roger Blandford,
director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and a
member of the U.S. National Academy of Science. "Black holes have a major
impact on the formation of galaxies and the environmental growth and evolution
of those galaxies."