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Jeebo

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1. It's outside the event horizon.

Reply to grumpyduck (Original post)

Thu Apr 6, 2023, 03:35 PM

Apr 2023

I'm not an astronomer or a physicist or anything of the sort, just a frequent reader of science fiction, but I believe the radiation you speak of comes from around the periphery of the black hole, outside of the event horizon.

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Question for astronomy buffs. [View all] grumpyduck Apr 2023 OP

It's outside the event horizon. Jeebo Apr 2023 #1

The radiation is coming from gasses near but not at the event horizon of the black hole royable Apr 2023 #2

as mass stretches and jostles around the accretion disk it heats up mike_c Apr 2023 #3

It is called Hawking Radiation nt Shermann Apr 2023 #4

I don't think they've detected Hawking radiation. Igel Apr 2023 #6

Interesting Shermann Apr 2023 #7

Funny you should ask that question today Warpy Apr 2023 #5

Impossible only once it's closer to the black hole than its 'event horizon' CloudWatcher Apr 2023 #8

Wow, thanks for all your replies. grumpyduck Apr 2023 #9