by Psnarf » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:39 pm
The message over in Breaking Space News, ESO: A Black Hole's Dinner is Fast Approaching, reminded me of a couple of questions regarding supermassive black holes. Recent astrophysics theory is that near the event horizon, space-time gets wacky and inside the event horizon, time becomes dominant, so all forward time vectors from the event horizon sphere point to the singularity. It's not like stuff can't escape because the gravitational pull is so great, as time ticks on, the stuff inevitably ends up at the center (along with all the rest of the Higgs bosons?).
Meanwhile, that gas cloud becomes more compressed as it approaches the event horizon. Is there a radius outside the event horizon with sufficient gravitational pressure to induce fusion? Would such fusion reactions explain the radiation events we detect?
Regarding the accretion disc, why is it always depicted as a ring around the middle? Do particles falling toward the upper latitudes somehow get into orbit around the equator? The greatest gravitational pull on objects approaching from above would be along a line from the singularity to the object, or does the existing accretion disk present a greater gravitation attraction?
With all the forward time gradients meeting at the singularity, things must be very strange in there.
The message over in Breaking Space News, ESO: A Black Hole's Dinner is Fast Approaching, reminded me of a couple of questions regarding supermassive black holes. Recent astrophysics theory is that near the event horizon, space-time gets wacky and inside the event horizon, time becomes dominant, so all forward time vectors from the event horizon sphere point to the singularity. It's not like stuff can't escape because the gravitational pull is so great, as time ticks on, the stuff inevitably ends up at the center (along with all the rest of the Higgs bosons?).
Meanwhile, that gas cloud becomes more compressed as it approaches the event horizon. Is there a radius outside the event horizon with sufficient gravitational pressure to induce fusion? Would such fusion reactions explain the radiation events we detect?
Regarding the accretion disc, why is it always depicted as a ring around the middle? Do particles falling toward the upper latitudes somehow get into orbit around the equator? The greatest gravitational pull on objects approaching from above would be along a line from the singularity to the object, or does the existing accretion disk present a greater gravitation attraction?
With all the forward time gradients meeting at the singularity, things must be very strange in there.