Wednesday 20 March 2013

How do Quasars form?

A Quasar is formed by a super, massive black hole sucking in a considerable amount of matter in an acceleration disk. A black hole is a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape. This causes the matter to begin spinning around this disk. And, because it is an acceleration disk, the matter will continue to speed up on a regular basis. As the matter speeds up more and more, it will begin to heat up. As it heats up, the matter begins to rub against other bits of matter. This causes friction which, in return, results in light. this light is what is visible to us. Quasar jets are streams of plasma that travel at near the speed of light from super massive black holes at the center of galaxies.

4 comments:

  1. If neither matter nor radiation can escape a black hole, then is it the friction of the acceleration disk that creates the jet? Your wording was a bit confusing...

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  2. the jets are there because the black hole has suck up so much matter and energy that at some point it actualy gets full,making it shoot all that content out in opposite directions from the top and bottom called gama ray bursts

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  3. thx tjis article and ur comment ikaros melan helped me a lot in my project

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  4. is it not 'Accretion' disk and not 'Acceleration' disk?

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