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To: PeaceBeWithYou; RadioAstronomer
A question for all the Astronomers out there--How can a black hole emit radiation? I thought they just sucked everything in.
6 posted on 06/28/2004 7:10:01 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce
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.


10 posted on 06/28/2004 7:17:37 PM PDT by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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To: ShadowAce

"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!


13 posted on 06/28/2004 7:19:46 PM PDT by seastay
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To: ShadowAce

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.


17 posted on 06/28/2004 7:24:07 PM PDT by petuniasevan (Waiting for liberals to congratulate US forces and Iraq for successful govt transfer...waiting.....)
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To: ShadowAce
How can a black hole emit radiation? I thought they just sucked everything in.

It does, but accelerating charges emit radiation.

23 posted on 06/28/2004 7:35:16 PM PDT by AndrewC (I am a Bertrand Russell agnostic, even an atheist.</sarcasm>)
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To: ShadowAce
Black holes tear logic apart..or...Black Holes are B.S.

Article excerpt:

The force of gravity is effectively zero when compared to the electric force. If you allow for the electrical structure of matter, the almost 2,000 fold difference in mass of the electron and proton will ensure that in a strong gravitational field charge separation will operate to prevent compression. Charge separation prevents the collapse of stars. Exotic theoretical objects like neutron stars and black holes are impossible.

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Black holes tear logic apart

26 posted on 06/28/2004 7:41:47 PM PDT by Light Speed
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To: ShadowAce
How can a black hole emit radiation?

It doesn't. This is newspaper sloppiness. It's stuff falling in that emits radiation.

34 posted on 06/28/2004 8:10:41 PM PDT by Salman
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