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Here's something cool that I found this evening:
New Technique for 'Weighing' Black HolesESA's XMM-Newton has helped to find evidence for the existence of controversial Intermediate Mass Black Holes. Scientists used a new, recently proven method for determining the mass of black holes.
Nikolai Shaposhnikov and Lev Titarchuk, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), have used the technique to determine the mass of the black hole, Cygnus X-1, located in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan) approximately 10 000 light years away in our Galaxy, the Milky Way.
The elegant technique, first suggested by Titarchuk in 1998, shows that Cygnus X-1, part of a binary system, contains 8.7 solar masses, with a margin of error of only 0.8 solar masses. Cygnus X-1 was one of the first compelling black hole candidates to emerge in the early 1970s. The system consists of a blue supergiant and a massive but invisible companion.
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Mad Mikey said:
By the way, How do you "prove" a process for determining the mass of a black hole??
< Read more in New Method for Determining BH MassAh, Mikey... Ever the UBER-GEEK!!
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Ah, Mikey... Ever the UBER-GEEK!!
By the way, How do you "prove" a process for determining the mass of a black hole?? Bring it to earth and weigh it?? Or is it all that geeky math stuff?!
|| Posted by sturgesbob, May 18, 2007 04:58 PM ||By the way, How do you "prove" a process for determining the mass of a black hole??
Ahhh.....it's complicated. I could tell you, but then you'd tell someone else....they'd repeat it to God-only knows who and the next thing you know: we're all walking around comparing methods of determining the masses of black holes.
That would be pure chaos and I won't have anything to do with the downfall of Western civilization using this methodology....
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, May 19, 2007 07:49 AM ||lkrhwoqkejqzkln shjsh,hncauliwjhnrvfmqmonz,dfous,ebeaofjewhgqubsgwkhc,tfkdh,ynmmdyicsncowabnkmvw,pdlcp,rmwjutuvqnlpgbdpkayr,wfljh,cnntdsvqdzydsmhdluwd,wgrht,dbcsjijebfoshlcgmsws,mvuvo,tprgenmlsduhhdtbcsok,vkyaj,bsakfinlvvckrhujfcsk,tmhek lhtpaxebeciopsk.
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