Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Black Hole Puts Dent In Space-time

Black Hole Puts Dent In Space-time - Yahoo! News

This is the kind of anomaly that can cause great leaps in scientific thinking, when they are figured out.

This black hole, was caught emanating stable x-ray emissions at 450 Hz and also 300 Hz ... NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE .... Once in 1996, and again in 2005. Both frequencies! Black holes typically chug down material, in a spasmodic and chaotic manner, and that is exactly how they emit x-rays. The frequency and luminosity of the x-rays vary widely, over short periods of time.
The stable frequencies are probably caused by bent spacetime, known as "frame dragging", and will tell us things about the black hole's mass and rate of spin.
I don't think however, that this explains how the accretion disk gets gobbled up, in only a few months time.

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