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Originally Posted by nightstalker
Would a blast dissperse angularly as you moved away from it ?
by that I mean by the time the chicken wings and dog legs arrive
would they be scattered over a fairly broad area or is this one two close?
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Gamma rays which are high energy photons are scattered over distance. Any intervening matter such as interstellar gas and dust, solar particles etc will absorb some of the photons energy and change the photon's trajectory.
Even the photons themselves collide with each other and scatter.
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Whats that other type of explosion that jetisons material
straight out of the polar axis? of a star( I'm sketchy memeroied here)
bit like looking down a gun barrel if I remember how it was described. Is there a particularly nasty example pointing at us ?
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Quasars, Seyfert galaxies , galaxies with active centres can shoot off plasma, X-rays, and UV radiation.
Although the mechanism is not fully understood, a rotating black hole is the common denominator with all these beasties. Some of the rotational energy of the black hole is transferred to the photons or particles in the jet.
Regards
Steven