Blazar light is created light-years away from supermassive blackhole
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From: Sam Wormley on 18 Feb 2010 23:52 Fermi pins down a colossal accelerator Blazar light is created light-years away from supermassive black hole http://physicsworld.com/cws/m/1644/17632/article/news/41749
From: Yousuf Khan on 22 Feb 2010 02:11 Sam Wormley wrote: > Fermi pins down a colossal accelerator > Blazar light is created light-years away from supermassive black hole > http://physicsworld.com/cws/m/1644/17632/article/news/41749 > It's interesting for sure, but if the source of visible light and the higher energy light, like the X-rays and Gamma rays are co-located in the exact same region, then I can't see how visible light would even be produced during those gamma ray flare ups. It would be like trying to find water from a squirt bottle while a firehose is firing at you from the same direction. Who can tell how much of the water comes from the squirt bottle in that case? Yousuf Khan
From: Yousuf Khan on 22 Feb 2010 02:12
john wrote: > On Feb 18, 10:52 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Fermi pins down a colossal accelerator >> Blazar light is created light-years away from supermassive black holehttp://physicsworld.com/cws/m/1644/17632/article/news/41749 > > > So, where does that leave Stephen Hawking's "nothing > can leave a black hole except x-rays" stuff? > In the shitter. This light is not coming from the black hole, but a region well outside the blackhole, like 10 light years away. Yousuf Khan |