September 18th, 2008
Podcast: Black Hole Surfaces, Magnetic Field Strengths, and the Speed of Gravitons
Written by Astronomy Cast
Artist impression of a black hole.
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Black Hole Surfaces, Magnetic Field Strengths, and the Speed of Gravitons show notes.
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September 19th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Hi,
Sorry to have to correct the prof but magnetism is a bipolar field and its strength rolls off as the cube of the distance not the square. Hope I am correct.
Vic Haynes.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:48 am
What if we had a way of attainng part of the speed of light, and then partially attracted the light to us magnetically, or with gases, somehow, or a type of gravity. Doesn't gravity of a celestial body depend upon the chemical make-up of the celestial body, and how is that in congruence with mass, change gravity.
Light cannot escape a black hole, but gases can. Maybe on the flip side of some of these black holes, the gases that escape it, converge, and start a new nebulae.