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Black Hole Spewing Energy

Posted by timothy on from the very-fabric-of-space dept.

dragoness.ai points to this story at space.com about some exciting news for black hole enthusiasts, writing "The scientists had a chance for the first time in history to observe energy coming out of a black hole."

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  1. original NASA press release by rakerman · · Score: 4, Informative

    The original NASA science news release has way cooler video and audio about the black hole.

  2. Re:Hawking by Yazeran · · Score: 3, Informative
    You are absolutely right, but Hawking radiation cannot transfer huge energies over short time. The effect of Hawking radiation is also scales inversely with the mass of the black hole, as the gravitational gradient is steeper near a small black hole than near a big one.

    Comparing Hawking radiation and this new magnetically induced energy transfer (if it exsists) is like comparing a candle light to the sun, Both create light but with different effect.

    Having discovered this method of energy transfer in the space close to a black hole might also be the key to explaining the huge energy jets observed from the centers of some galaxies (This is also mentioned in the original NASA article).


    Yours Yazeran


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