Only picked up a little bit of the ABC Radio National science show today about M87's central massive black hole "burping" great bubbles of X-ray detectable energy/matter of stupendous proportions: will try and check out the rest of the story I missed prior to me tuning in.
Anyone have any other news/links to this particular phenomenum?
Only picked up a little bit of the ABC Radio National science show today about M87's central massive black hole "burping" great bubbles of X-ray detectable energy/matter of stupendous proportions: will try and check out the rest of the story I missed prior to me tuning in.
Anyone have any other news/links to this particular phenomenum?
In my opinion the real question is this. Is the matter that the black hole is spewing out in any way similar to the matter that it initially swallowed up? is there any correlation in any way?
Either ways, I think this discovery has the potential shed a bit of light (no pun intended) on black holes and what happens to matter post being devoured..
Mind you I have no idea about any of this... its all just my hypothesis...
When as a young lad I first attended lectures in Quantum Mechanics back in the late sixties I was actually scared of the implications. The whole 'real' Universe seemed to rest on indeterminate 'particles' or 'wave functions' of very doubtful parentage.
Some time later black holes at one stage were mere figments of someones extrapolation.
Now we know far more and consequentially far less.
We can only learn by observation.
We live in very interesting times. In less than my lifetime Hoyle first postulated nucleosythesis of the elements in stars and supernovae. The encoding of the information of the life we are all a part of was found to be DNA in the early fifties.
We amateur astronomers have tickets to the show but the best seats are up the front with the biggest and best detectors/instruments.
We have only begun to understand. I for one will watch the show with great interest.......
