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My first thought was that maybe it’s falling into a black hole and thus heavily time dilated, but the article doesn’t mention that as a possibility. So… why is
by dave4420 2y ago
My first thought was that maybe it’s falling into a black hole and thus heavily time dilated, but the article doesn’t mention that as a possibility.
So… why isn’t this a serious possibility?
- pavel_lishin 2y agoI'm going to take a guess not backed up by any mathematics - to be that close to a black hole, it would have to be well within the Roche limit and get torn apart. Plus, I'd wager they'd be able to tell if it was eclipsed by the black hole at all.
- Zardoz84 2y agoPlus a very visible Doppler effect. We know many stars orbiting neutron stars or blackholes because the Doppler effect, indicates that it's moving fast around something that we can't see.
- pdonis 2y ago> maybe it’s falling into a black hole and thus heavily time dilated If it were doing that it would have redshifted into undetectability and disappeared from view on a time scale much shorter than 8 months, which is how long it has been observed.
- GlobalFrog 2y agoYou’re making Sparks here!