Massive Black Hole Stumps Researchers

Space.com ^ | June 28, 2004 | Tariq Malik

[PeaceBeWithYou]

"When I in awesome wonder - Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made. I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder.Thy power throughout the universe displayed."

[kingofrock]

its star jones.

[Napoleon Solo]

So how could thee in all good sense have created the Islamofacists who only want to have us go back to the stone age?

[vger]

Is it bigger than mmoore?

[Helms]

Ping.

[ShadowAce]

A question for all the Astronomers out there--How can a black hole emit radiation? I thought they just sucked everything in.

[Flavius]

Sitting at the heart of a distant galaxy...

Do they allways have to say that... in a galaxy far far away...

Are the stars wars playing there three

[Integrityrocks]

Placing a weight on a black hole brings "incomprehensible" to a new level.

[dc-zoo]

Jesse Jackass?

[Ichneumon]

A question for all the Astronomers out there--How can a black hole emit radiation?

Black holes actually do "leak" some energy due to quantum effects, but most of the energy we see from black holes doesn't actually come from *inside* the black hole, instead we're seeing blasts of radiation caused by the black hole but occurring outside it, made by a sort of "generator" effect as mass swirls into the black hole's gravitational field. This causes some high-energy beams to spray outward, most strongly as jets aligned along the north and south pole of the black hole.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Freewill.

[wimpycat]

I hope they get to the bottom of this soon, because I swear it's got my car keys.

[seastay]

"How can a black hole emit radiation?" I think they emit on the fringe only, sort of like a victim screaming out before being swallowed by a lion!

[don'tspeak4me]

omg...i almost p'd myself!

[DB]

Placing a weight on a black hole brings "incomprehensible" to a new level.

Indeed...

It is meaningless...

[ShadowAce]

OK. That explanation makes some sense to me. I am not an astronomer or scientist by any stretch of the imagination. It makes more sense when I realize that the energy being emitted does not come from the black hole per se, but from around it.

Thanks.

[petuniasevan]

As far as radiation emission is concerned: the materials being drawn into the black hole swirl around it like water entering a drain. Thus the gases and dust concentrate and as they swirl faster friction heats them to high energy levels indeed. Some of the infalling matter can even be shot out in jets from the polar regions of the area surrounding the black hole as the matter backs up faster than it can fall in.

The very high energies in the form of x-rays and gamma rays are emitted from the swirling gases before they reach the "event horizon" (the point of no return). Some of the energies are emitted in the opposite direction of the event horizon and do "escape" the black hole's influence at lightspeed.

[MHGinTN]

I was expecting a picture of Michael Moore!

[SeeRushToldU_So]

So how could thee in all good sense have created the Islamofacists who only want to have us go back to the stone age?

He didn't, Satan spawned all the false religions on Earth to confuse and decieve the people from the true religion. You just have to figure out which one the true relegion is.

[Fiddlstix]

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