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Nope. They move at the speed of light. Our first detection of such a death start might be our oceans boiling. But the reality is that astrophysical jets come
by sandworm101 5y ago
Nope. They move at the speed of light. Our first detection of such a death start might be our oceans boiling. But the reality is that astrophysical jets come out at right angles from the rotational plane of the black hole. All the biggest black holes rotate in the same plane as their host galaxy. We are far away in the outer spiral arms, in the plane. Any dangerous jet will likely be at 90 degrees from us, missing earth by many thousands of light-years.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoNit: Relativistic jets move at significant fractions of the speed of light, but not at the speed of light.
- sandworm101 5y agoThe material of the jet is sub-light, but the radiation emitted by that material is lightspeed. If I throw a rock at you it is not at lightspeed. But if I heat first that rock to a billion degrees the light it is emitting will it will burn you before it hits you. The material of a jet is like a million-degree rock an AU across. We will be ashes long before any physical material hits earth.
- ordu 5y ago> We will be ashes long before any physical material hits earth. Earth is a moving target, so will physical material hit Earth after we have been incinerated by the radiation of the jet? Or can we get hit by a physical material after we had dodged radiation?
- ComputerGuru 4y agoIs there a reason black holes only rotate in one plane? I would naively have expected a 3D rotation to result from their formation.