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How much time dilation do you get at those masses though? I’m having more trouble visualizing how accretion disks would work for a binary black hole. Because t
by hinkley 1y ago
How much time dilation do you get at those masses though?
I’m having more trouble visualizing how accretion disks would work for a binary black hole. Because the light is coming from the disks, not the black holes. So those are what are actually pulsing/girating.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoYeah, good point on that, too. I bet someone's written a simulator that I could run locally, but I've got a busy day ahead of me :( I thought that in this case, the light that they detected was coming from the jets coming from the poles, not the disk itself directly.
- hinkley 1y agoSince black holes are black holes, the jets are generated by the disk.
- ardel95 1y agoUnless I screwed up the math, they would be quarter of a light year apart. Plenty of space for each black hole to form its own accretion disk.
- hinkley 1y agoOh that chart is really awful then. It’s showing an accretion disk that’s half a light year in diameter at least.