Astronomer goes into detail about new polarized supermassive black hole images
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1/20/1970
a month ago
by thunderbong
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ChrisArchitect
a month ago
blueprint
> my point is it's not like a vacuum cleaner sucking everything up around it
Isn't it? It's just that the stuff around it has a high enough velocity..
a month ago
scotty79
I think I've read somewhere that matter falling into blackhole emits a lot of energy due to processes around it. Significant percentage of the rest mass of the matter falling in is emitted along the way as energy.
a month ago
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