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what is a blackhole?
Last post 07-27-2008 11:38 PM by juvenilealchemist. 68 replies.
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  • 07-20-2008 08:49 PM In reply to

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    ooh hello.. haha thanks for the referrences you've given me I've already joined the galactic center group and I've also visited the site of UCLA thanks a lot......I'm starting to search things about  Dr. Ghez .. ..ooh about that personal question it's not really that personal haha so can I just ask it here?.. thanks again take care and never lose hope...!!

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  • 07-21-2008 12:21 AM In reply to

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    Great to hear that you found, and joined, the galactic center group! - that's pretty awesome! - they seem to be making a TON of headway in the astrophysics world, as I'm sure you're probably finding out already =) 

     And about the personal question? - if you say it's not too personal, then go ahead - shoot! - I'm not easily offended, anyway, -drew =P

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  • 07-21-2008 01:16 AM In reply to

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    haha thanks...I know I'll learn a lot in their group.. haha.. by the way do you know Dr. Ghez's e-mail address?...

     

    the personal question----how old are you? and what did you took in college(something connected in astronomy I bet coz you have a good amount of knowledge about them.)

    take care........

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  • 07-21-2008 02:58 AM In reply to

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    Haha! - I wish that EYE MYSELF, had Dr. Ghez's email address.  I believe that you can look her up on the UCLA faculty search page, though.  OR you could try looking up the "Galactic Center Group", on yahoo. 

    I am 29 years old, will be 30 in september. 

    I was a business management major in college, and never finished up my degree.  I am somewhat of a 'self-taught' person, as I am a rather voracious reader of anything that has to do with astronomy or astrophysics.

    I only made it through Calculus I, Physics I, and that's pretty much it for the science courses.  Everything I have learned, it has been through self-teaching.  I'm just that type of person.  I have taught myself how to play the guitar, when I was 12, and my fascination of the stars and the universe is ALSO pretty-much what gives me the drive, and the ability, to learn about astrophysics.  Though being NO sort of professional, I have always tried to learn and absorb as much as I possibly could - my fascination with the universe simply astounds me, at times.  I truly believe that when you are truly interested in something, you can possibly become a self-taught-person, in whatever field that you choose =P

    Hope this filled you in a little bit on where I am coming from.  Take care, and best of luck with everything! - Cheers! -drew =D

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  • 07-23-2008 10:32 PM In reply to

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    There is a thing they call "death of the stars"... is there also a thing like "death of the blackholes"?..?
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  • 07-25-2008 05:03 AM In reply to

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    I don't really think that there's really a such thing as the death of a blackhole... there would be now way for us to analyze a blackhole in a later stage of it's life-cycle, because all of the encircling material around the blackhole (for instance, the galactic center "sagittarius-A") could either wind up staying there, in it's orbit, or it could wind up itself going into supernova around the black-hole.  I'm really not sure of the diameter of the encircling and orbiting stars around sag/A, so I can't really tell if they're old stars in the smaller life cycle after they could have possibly ran their course and turned into small red dwarf stars, that just happen to continuously and forever orbit, the black hole. 

     Interesting how you actually have to be able to observe the light from celestial objects, to determine the mass and area of a black hole. 

    Pretty cool, though. 

    I'm just taking a guess that the black hole in the center of our galaxy is maybe, I dunno, 15 - 40 light-years across, maybe? - could be larger, I just don't have any idea of how long the time-studies of the orbiting stars were taken, to get an idea of how large the nucleus mass might be. 

    Have you been able to locate Dr. Ghez's email address? - I'll check the UCLA faculty page or something, if you want me to.  She might not respond to every email, OR, she might not be a very busy woman at all and be willing to respond back to emails regarding the Gal-Ctr. 

    Anyway, I have to get ready for bed.  Have a great day! -drew =P

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  • 07-25-2008 08:15 PM In reply to

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     I don't know dr. Ghez's e-mail ad yet yeah she might be very busy to answer all our e-mails  especially now that their are a lot of things that is happening in our universe......assuming their is no such thing as the death of the black hole and the death of stars(collapsing of stars) continue then black holes will keep on multiplying.....ahhh it's really complicated....

    so sag a is really a big one?

     

    take good care!!
     

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  • 07-26-2008 08:36 PM In reply to

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    assuming their is no such thing as the death of the black hole and the death of stars(collapsing of stars) continue then black holes will keep on multiplying.....

    I personally, now this is just my own theory, maybe backed up a little bit by what I have read about blackholes - I think that there really isn't a such thing as a "death" of a blackhole. 

    They now know that most of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions, of galaxies out there, they think that every single one of thse galaxies, has a blackhole in the center of them, helping them to formulate, and even exist in the first place, by their gravitational infuluence on surrounding star systems. 

    The light that we can see from our own, SagA blackhole, could possibly be the light that is traveling to us, from thousands upon thousands of years ago, in our own observations.  So we don't really know how old most central black holes are, nor what happens to them when the stars that are in orbit around them, that form galxies, we don't know too much about their life-cycles, either.

    I would take a guess that our neirest galactic neighbor, Andromeda, might also have an observable central black hole, but I would have no way to tell how to measure such a distant light frequency, that is sooo distant from earth. 

    There is some speculation, however, that many more 'mini' blackholes might exist anywhere.  Though definitely not the size of something like sagittariusA, they still have some properties that could possibly change the fabric of time/space, that surrounds them. 

    Ok, I'm rambling - sorry, I get lost in my own head sometimes.  I had a physics professor back in college, that one time told me that he winds up just getting lost in his own head, even when he's travling on an elevator, or something! - HA!

    Cheers! -drew =P

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  • 07-27-2008 11:38 PM In reply to

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    oh it's alright.....I've been hearing so many things about black holes this past few days...

    black holes really plays a very important role in our universe..... their are so many discoveries that are acquainted with black holes....

    oh by the way  why did they name that super massive black hole Sagittarius A ?..

    take care.....
     

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