Skip to comments.
Massive Black Hole Stumps Researchers
Space.com ^
| June 28, 2004
| Tariq Malik
Posted on 06/28/2004 7:03:25 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-73 next last
"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."
To: PeaceBeWithYou
To: PeaceBeWithYou
So how could thee in all good sense have created the Islamofacists who only want to have us go back to the stone age?
To: PeaceBeWithYou
Is it bigger than mmoore?
4
posted on
06/28/2004 7:07:18 PM PDT
by
vger
(asta la vista earthlinks!)
To: dead
5
posted on
06/28/2004 7:08:59 PM PDT
by
Helms
("...Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.., The New York Times)
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)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
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
7
posted on
06/28/2004 7:10:20 PM PDT
by
Flavius
("... we should reconnoitre assiduosly... " Vegetius)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
Placing a weight on a black hole brings "incomprehensible" to a new level.
To: PeaceBeWithYou
9
posted on
06/28/2004 7:16:38 PM PDT
by
dc-zoo
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)
To: Napoleon Solo
11
posted on
06/28/2004 7:18:32 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: PeaceBeWithYou
I hope they get to the bottom of this soon, because I swear it's got my car keys.
12
posted on
06/28/2004 7:18:50 PM PDT
by
wimpycat
("The road to the promised land runs past Sinai."-C.S. Lewis)
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
To: kingofrock
omg...i almost p'd myself!
To: Integrityrocks
Placing a weight on a black hole brings "incomprehensible" to a new level.
Indeed...
It is meaningless...
15
posted on
06/28/2004 7:21:11 PM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: Ichneumon
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.
16
posted on
06/28/2004 7:21:41 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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.....)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
I was expecting a picture of Michael Moore!
18
posted on
06/28/2004 7:29:14 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: 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? 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.
19
posted on
06/28/2004 7:31:49 PM PDT
by
SeeRushToldU_So
(Democrats are enemies of the USA.)
To: blam
20
posted on
06/28/2004 7:32:51 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-73 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson