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Researchers from the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich and the University of Miami believe that they were able to find signs the existence of black holes not only in outer space, but also on earth – in the Southern Ocean. Scientists are convinced that giant funnels, which are impossible to see, exist in reality and even possess ability to exist for about a year, their report says, published on Fluid Mechanics magazine website. In the greatest degrees of whirlwind have been seen in the southern Atlantic. Focusing on satellite imagery, scientists concluded that they suck in water from the ocean in the same way as black holes in space they absorb light. As it turned out, these funnels are so densely surrounded by constantly moving streams of water that everything in gets them – garbage, oil, living things and even water disappears forever and ever. Studying this phenomenon, scientists mathematically isolated water transport vortices from the sequence satellite observations. So they defined the boundaries rotations, which, as it turned out, are located inside the whirlpool. This process has always been difficult because the whirlpools are too swift and move in a chaotic manner. As a result, scientists found that the vortex in the ocean has its own “photon sphere “or” photon circle “in accordance with the terminology Einstein’s theory of relativity, like black holes. In space, a ray light at a critical distance ceases to spin in black hole. Instead, it bends and returns to its original position. position, forming a circular orbit. A similar area exists around whirlpool in the ocean – in it, fluid particles move in a closed loop without the possibility of flowing out of this circle, like light in a black hole. So vortices in the ocean mathematically equivalent to black holes. Specialists hope that they receive the results will help resolve a number of issues that concern them, including including the effect of vortices on temperature in the oceans, and the reason for its pollution. Researchers suggest that whirlpools enhancing the circulation of transport of warm and salty Atlantic water heading north, have a restraining effect. Most likely, they mitigate the negative effects of melting sea ice in a global warming environment. However before recently, scientists could not determine how strong it is impact in quantitative terms because there was no accurate data about the boundaries of the vortices. After the publication of this scientific study professor of oceanology also from miami josephine olaskoaga tested the mathematical method of haller and beron-vera and unexpectedly discovered a similar whirlwind in Mexican Bay, notes Science 2.0. Now she uses the information received by her, in order to assess the possible direction water transfer in case of future oil spills in the bay.
Water black hole
