Polarised sunglasses see black hole disks

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alan.jon4@gmail.com - 27 Jul 2008 13:38 GMT

For the first time astronomers have found a way to get a clean view of
the elusive disks of matter surrounding supermassive black holes.

http://thefreereporter.net/newspr/3020202.html

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windbag - 28 Jul 2008 03:13 GMT

I wonder how these disks can be related to the antihydrogen clouds
which form above a black hole's axis.

Is the a~H drawn toward surrounding matter, or driven away from it?

alan.j...@gmail.com wrote:

> For the first time astronomers have found a way to get a clean view of
> the elusive disks of matter surrounding supermassive black holes.
>
> http://thefreereporter.net/newspr/3020202.html

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Space Forum / Space Science / July 2008

Polarised sunglasses see black hole disks