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Light From Black Holes

October 28th, 2009 by cichocet · No Comments · Uncategorized

As far as most people know, black holes are the darkest things out there. Their gravity is so intense that not even light can escape their grasp. Black holes aren’t studied with telescopes, but with computers, because you really can’t see them. Black holes might not be as dark as we thought though. Gases being sucked into the black holes canbe heated to tempuratures 1000 times hotter than the sun and become an intense sourse of x-rays. “As these black holes magnetic field pulls these gases into its center, it creates a light show.”

This information gives us a whole new understanding as too how complex black holes are. It could be essential to studying how they form and how they grow.

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