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black hole sighted near milkyway instresting

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Post Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:35 am

Yeah FD, there's much more evidance suggesting that they DO exist as opposed to those saying they don't. I bet you've never seen a real picture of the Great Wall of Galaxies (called by some the Great Attractor) but I'd certinaly hope you know that's real.

Post Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:54 am

Forgive me, but I just can't resist this any longer.
Black hole sited in Omega-41. The object is located at the bottom of the well.

Post Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:49 am

it might interest you that a black hole isn't actually a hole, its an orb of hyperdense matter, an exponential number of times denser then a Pulsar/ Neutron star. we merely interpret it as being a hole as no light ever escapes from it.

Post Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:21 pm

infinitely denser, don't you mean?

Post Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:24 pm

possibly.. I haven't been measuring it

Post Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:53 pm

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".

Post Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:57 pm

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)

Post Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:15 pm

Have they figured it out to be a "solid object" or are they still working on finding out what it is.
I'm taking a wild guess here; Since we are really studying the "effects" of the blackhole, then we're still unclear as to what it actually is. Theroetical physicists are still speculating?

Post Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:44 am

Well, unless you'd like to go and study a black hole up close, it'll probably stay that way.

Post Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:47 pm

we'll come to your house and look at you. if we take a picture of you we can give it to FD as proof!

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