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black hole sighted near milkyway instresting
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This is an excerpt from a news release at hubblesite.org.
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"The cavities were created by jets of charged particles ejected at nearly light speed from a supermassive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun lurking in the nucleus of the bright central galaxy. "
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Now, this puzzels me.
If black holes won't allow light to escape, then how is it even remotely possible for charged particles (traveling less than the speed of light) to be ejected from them?
This just does not add up...imho.
The only thing I can think of that would possibly allow this is "pulsing".
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"The cavities were created by jets of charged particles ejected at nearly light speed from a supermassive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun lurking in the nucleus of the bright central galaxy. "
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Now, this puzzels me.
If black holes won't allow light to escape, then how is it even remotely possible for charged particles (traveling less than the speed of light) to be ejected from them?
This just does not add up...imho.
The only thing I can think of that would possibly allow this is "pulsing".
its my understanding that these jets do not come from the hole itself, as nothing can escape it as you rightly say. rather it comes from "our" side of the event horizon, from the particulate destruction of accretion matter as it falls towards the hole. at the polar extremes of the hole, where gravity effects are least pronounced, energised plasma and x-rays are ejected outwards. You can see a similar effect in spiral galaxies, including our own (but of course this may be because spiral galaxies might accretion discs for black holes)
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