Topic: Can this be one of the biggest science breakthroughs so far?(Blackhole) (Read 725 times)

Can't watch those at the moment but my guess is the spin rate of matter headed inward is a fair percentage of light speed.

Can't watch those at the moment but my guess is the spin rate of matter headed inward is a fair percentage of light speed.

In these times of deception people will believe anything they serve them, even the most ludicrous fairy tales.

Here is your "black hole" source 

that looks like a glazed donut that's very out of focus

Its neat, but its not a picture of the part of the black hole that people really care about. They used microwave imaging, which would give them information on a distance quite far from the event horizon itself where the region of space was relatively warm. To get an image of the event horizon, they would have to use unfathomably high energy gamma radiation. I didn't run the numbers myself, but I was speaking with a stellar astrophysicist who said that we'd need a power source on the magnitude of the sun to get an image of the event horizon of a black hole using the same process.

I'm not putting anyone on the project down, its certainly cool and I'd be willing to bet that they themselves reported nothing incorrectly, but the media jumped on this like a medical study that found one guy who had a stroke after drinking a cup of coffee, so they report that coffee causes strokes. Astrophysicists think its neat, but not really that groundbreaking.

You and I don't know that a black hole spins. "Inside" the black hole, our rules of space time do not apply. A singularity has no dimensions, right?

We discuss the events outside the "event horizon," the Schwarchild radius.

We see things outside that radius. For example, assume an object is trapped and it is headed into the black hole, getting crushed and stretched as it goes. Light is emitted. Until it reaches the event horizon, we see that light. It was able to escape. After this object passes the event horizon, nothing escapes.

And there, yes, the typical circular flow patterns which develop in a gravitational field develop. Such patterns must be two dimensional, so they consolidate in the equatorial plane, where the radial forces are the highest.

I think that's understandable but if it isn't I'll try another approach.

I don't get why a black hole needs to spin. Yes I can see galaxies spin, everything spins pretty much. But why a black hole needs to spin. Is it because the star, before its collapse, was already spinning? Momentum to (infinite?) acceleration?

No. Nothing of the sort.

Does this mean that we have a continual sliding of photons from the equatorial regions, along the "surface" of the BH, toward the poles? And then, internally, from the poles towards the equator? ...

In its rush to politicize on the basis of gender, the world’s first computer-generated image of a “black hole,” the mainstream media has once again been caught propagating politically-correct “fake news” by falsely attributing the image’s creation to a female whose algorithms weren’t even used to generate said image.

For days, Left Cult writers, pundits, and politicians hailed Katie Bouman as some kind of hero for supposedly single-handedly coding the data that ultimately generated the black hole image – something that Bouman herself initially claimed on her personal Facebook page when she captioned a celebratory photo of herself with the words:

“Watching in disbelief as the first image I ever made of a black hole was in the process of being reconstructed.”

Bouman, the paying-attention world would quickly find out, wasn’t actually being honest in taking full credit for the image’s generation, seeing as how an entire team of coders contributed to the project. Not only that, but Bouman’s coding “contributions” didn’t even make the final cut – meaning she contributed a whole lot of nothing to the final creation.

But none of this stopped the fake news brigade, along with dimwitted politicians like socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), from publishing all sorts of sexist, woman-worshiping nonsense about how Bouman has somehow earned a unique place in the history books as a female contributor to science.

“Take your rightful seat in history, Dr. Bouman!” tweeted AOC, along with an emoji of a telescope. “Congratulations and thank you for your enormous contribution to the advancements of science and mankind. Here’s to #WomenInSTEM!” the live-streaming fanatic added, “STEM” referring to the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, which many Leftist feminists claim isn’t occupied by enough women, LGBTs, and other “special” groups.

Rate of centrifugal force is highest equatorially. There the speed is likely a good fraction of light speed, where at upper and lower latitudes that speed is proportionally less. In those regions light falls in at the equator it cannot.

So... How many black holes, mathematically speaking, exist across the universe?

Are they responsible for that missing mass?

How come the light (energy) I see on that picture is not perfectly spherical? I thought a black hole was a hole from all directions, from all perspectives... and not something shaped like a warped doughnut... So a black hole has an up and a down and a profile.

Cool.

 

EDIT: The light we see is a what is happening in the region behind the black hole. I answered my own question.