Seeing a blackhole
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on October 4, 2002 at 4:23:29 PM
It is funny that a black hole is invisible to the visible light spectrum. X-rays can see it though. Scientists are witnessing the creation and destruction of jets, particles that originally eminatted from a nearby start, being done by a blackhole.
Quote
The focus was a binary star system called XTE J1550-564. The star system lies within the Milky Way galaxy, but it is still 17,000 light-years from Earth. (A light-year is the distance that light travels in one year, at the rate of 186,282 miles per second.)
In this star system, a normal star orbits an older, collapsed star.
As the younger star's gases are pulled toward the black hole, they form a spinning disk, like water being sucked into a drain.