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Related: About this forumNASA Spots giant X-ray burst from black hole at center of galaxy
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-s-chandra-detects-record-breaking-outburst-from-milky-way-s-black-hole/#.VKsPBivF-Ah
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NASA Spots giant X-ray burst from black hole at center of galaxy (Original Post)
Takket
Jan 2015
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)1. kick
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)3. I thought the idea was that nothing could come out of a black hole.
Shivering Jemmy
(900 posts)5. Hawking blew that idea up long ago
Although its a bit more complicated than that.
And this is a burst from the accretion disk around the hole I'd guess.
Takket
(21,526 posts)7. correct
The blast comes from the "vicinity" of the black hole, not the black hole interior.
eppur_se_muova
(36,246 posts)6. X-rays come from superheated plasma as it's falling in ...
after that, only a faint "glow" of particles and antiparticles created immediately outside the event horizon.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)4. uh oh galaxy rebooting