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To: C19fan; GeronL; Slings and Arrows

It’s the brightest black hole ever found?


3 posted on 02/26/2015 5:30:06 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise; mark3681

Although not even light can escape the powerful gravitational pulls of black holes — hence, their name — black holes are often bright. That’s because they’re surrounded by features known as accretion disks, which are made up of gas and dust that heat up and give off light as it swirl into the black holes.


6 posted on 02/26/2015 5:32:50 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: a fool in paradise

Unlike light bulbs, which are dark-suckers and which wear out their lighting abilities as they get full (hence the dark spots on burnt-out light bulbs); black holes are light suckers which gather and consolidate light from many sources and they get stronger at lighting things up as they get fuller. The dynamics are different - similar to how air conditioners also create heat which must be vented to the outside and how we can use a flame from propane to make a refrigerator cold.


17 posted on 02/26/2015 6:12:56 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: a fool in paradise

lol


22 posted on 02/26/2015 6:46:02 AM PST by GeronL
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