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[–] 6 points 4 months ago

TIL Euclid is still alive. Thank you, science vampire!

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Good thing we can see the entire universe and have thoroughly surveyed all of it so this type of headline is reasonable.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I love listening to the recorded black holes and quasars. Does anyone know where you can find more? I've only found a few short ones on YouTube and here:

    https://www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Music/library/index.html

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    What is the ray of light perpendicular to the plane of the disc?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Jets of material, a byproduct of the accretion disk and the black hole at the center:

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xKVwPSZ-k1s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tcghbbglf4

    A good analogy might be water swirling down a toilet. Or a hurricane, viewed from above. As gas swirls in, it heats up/"speeds" up so much that some of it tends to get flung out at the poles of the disk very quickly.

    The actual physics of how that happens are unintuitive in like a hundred different ways, though, as the conditions are ridiculously extreme. It's very hot, the density of stuff varies wildly, there's a lot of radiation and electromagnetic interaction; it doesn't really resemble anything on Earth.

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    Energy builds up to a point where it can’t be contained, then blows out it through the poles — I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I only see it coming out of one pole. How does it decide which pole?

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