THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS. Andromeda Galaxy with lots of black holes.
Posted on 06/15/2013 2:30:31 PM PDT by lbryce
Title:NASA Finds Black Hole Cluster
No matter how old you are, space never stops being cool. That applies doubly to black holes, which is why NASA's latest discovery should be considered totally awesome: using the Chandra X-ray observatory, the agency found an "unprecedented" cluster of black holes in the Andromeda galaxy.
How unprecedented? There could be 26 of them in this cluster alone. And these were just the ones that were immediately identifiable, as scientists say there are likely many more that are currently invisible. Said the lead author of the study, "We think it's just the tip of the iceberg." Cool.
“NASA Finds Black Hole Cluster”
Yeh, it’s obuma and his fascist administration.
Black holes are completely invisible themselves, as any light that passes the event horizon is completely consumed. That said, in reality, black holes are usually blazing with light, because as matter falls towards a black hole, it is accelerated and compressed by gravitic forces. As that matter heats up it begins to release light as energy, eventually running through the visible spectrum, and then on up into x-rays.
So the accretion disk around a black hole is ridiculously bright.
Now, if the black hole really was out in space with no matter falling in, it would still be really bright because of the material it ate before. Imagine a photon with just enough energy to stay above the event horizon. It slowly, slowly circles outward until it reaches a point where it can move away from the black hole, giving the hole a slow, rosy glow for millions of years after the last matter fell in.
Finally, if it ran out of that glow, it would still be visible by the massive distortions it causes in light, bending and lensing the light from behind it, and even the light coming from the viewer could be wrapped around the event horizon, coming back to create a sort of mirror image sphere shape, with distorted lens-like properties around it.
There’s a few pictures and more information here: http://www.universetoday.com/74462/what-does-a-black-hole-look-like/
Let me know when NASA finds and identifies the Great Attractor.
A black hole cluster would be Barry down low Soetero and Reggie Love doing the nasty.
We claim that our technology allows us to see to the center of a galaxy (we can’t even see ours), filled with billions of star and for now, at least, dozens of black holes, and there are trillions of objects between this one tiny spot and Earth including our asteroid belt and the fact that we are so close to the Sun that we are within the ‘flame’ area like the flame around a candle wick, and yet we can determine by insignificant ‘flickers’ in the light how many black holes there are, even though the amount of stars present is a WAG ?
God made Light good.
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS. Andromeda Galaxy with lots of black holes.
Black holes are just the result of imploding stars of sufficient mass that end up so dense, that not even light can escape the gravity. Also, keep in mind that stars are just contained nuclear explosions, with sufficient enough gravity to keep said explosions contained. Once the fuel burns off (hydrogen turning into heavier elements that can no longer be used; mostly iron), the gravity exceeds the outward pressure of the nuclear furnace and the star collapses in on itself.
In some cases, the resulting implosion will end in a neutron star (pulsar, magnetar, etc.), but some will become black holes. Some of these will emit visible light and some won’t.
So, a black hole is basically not really a hole, as much as an exceedingly large mass that is crushed into an infinitely small space, which is supposed to tear a hole in space itself. In either event, black holes still emit “light”, but in the form of gamma radiation. We just perceive light in a very myopic spectrum...radio waves are light, X-Rays are light, etc..
Light that passes near a black hole will be diverted by the gravity, any rotation. Some light will be diverted all the way about. A rotating black hole can add energy to the diverted light and literally send it all the way around. But there will be a sort of ring effect visible from some distance even without rotation. This diversion caused by the gravitational effects and the deformation of the space time can result in all sorts of oddities, including the appearance of the universe "covering up" the black hole, strange changes in the apparent size, or even more bizarre things if the rotating object is distorted by it's rotation. There are models of the visual effects - sometimes reflected in the movies.
Of Course this is all theoretic. Getting close enough to see these effects is very dangerous. Rotating black holes can energize beams of particles and/or radiation that could vaporize the solar system at interstellar distances. Astronomers detect these things and we infer there are black holes at the roots. Astrophysics is not quite certain on the consequences of merging black holes, or the bizarre spacetime distortion caused by a cluster of the things. So I can imagine there's plenty happening that we can't even begin to imagine.
they’ve trained the telescope on the congressional black caucus?
>> so unless they collide they would just orbit each other.
That supposes blacks holes translate in space and would couple despite the momentum of one or both. Are the gravitational properties of two proximate black holes known or theorized?
The translation of interest would be translation relative to one another. As galaxies collide, it stands to reason that there are black holes moving relative to one another. The question is what happens if two (or more) come within "gravitational range" of each other, whatever that is.
As with any massive bodies, there is a possibility of a pass-by, slingshot or other effect. One thing known/theorized about black holes is that they have an event horizon. This is a location where the escape velocity (from the gravity of the black hole) is the speed of light. If something enters the event horizon, it's not coming out, no matter how much momentum it has.
The orbit mechanics are well known, but difficult to calculate in all but the simplest case. Newton, modified by Einstein. Black holes aren't special for orbital mechanics.
Thanks. Any comments on the other thoughts?
IMO, we haven’t seen anything yet.
Man thinks he’s pretty darned smart, And in truth man is very inquisitive and deductive and smart. When God reveals 5% of what He knows, we’ll be still and know Him for who He is on bended knee.
Thanks for your comments.
Thanks for the response. Very good.
The implosion theory was informative. It reminded me of some things I wasn’t thinking about during the initial post. I can understand why these shouldn’t be seen as worm holes then.
You do touch on the fact that they distort space. Utilizing folded space is a way to travel great distances in a short time.
You know, I’d be the first to admit I don’t know as much as I’d like about all these things, but it sure is interesting to ponder.
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