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Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-doomed-quasar-powerful-explosion.html
> 
> 
>> PKS 1302-102 is one of the few known quasars with a pair of black
>> holes within its accretion disc. It is also a curious case for
>> astronomers as it will produce a powerful explosion when these two
>> black holes merge. The scientists trying to determine the scale of
>> this merger estimate that it could result in an enormous release of
>> energy.
>>
>> "The result will be an enormous release of energy, roughly equivalent
>> to millions of supernovae, in the form of gravitational waves,"
>> Matthew Graham of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech),
>> one of the co-discoverers of PKS 1302-102, told Phys.org.
>>
>> The quasar is in its final phase of the merging process. It could
>> help us predict what the final stages of a black hole merger look
>> like or how long the process might take. This is the so-called "final
>> parsec problem", yet unsolved, as all theoretical models failed to
>> explain the process.
>>
>> Graham and his colleagues at Caltech, using the Catalina Real-Time
>> Transient Survey, detected a strong, smooth periodic signal when
>> observing PKS 1302-102 in optical and infrared light. Periodic signal
>> was something that scientists haven't seen before in a quasar, so
>> they suggest that it means the presence of a pair of supermassive
>> black holes.
 
Oh no!!!
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 09:51 -0600
  Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-10 18:26 +0000
  Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-11-10 13:10 -0800
    Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 16:45 -0600
      Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 16:25 -0800
        Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 18:57 -0600
          Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 17:03 -0800
            Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 19:07 -0600
              Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 09:05 -0800
                Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 11:11 -0600
            Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 10:36 -0600
            Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 09:14 -0800
              Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 12:56 -0500
          Re: Doomed quasar is heading for a powerful explosion "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 13:04 -0800

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