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- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: hubble and black hole
- Date: 21 Nov 92 14:12:14
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- In-reply-to: llew@bigwpi.WPI.EDU's message of 21 Nov 1992 18:30:13 GMT
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- llew@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Lok C. Lew Yan Voon) writes:
-
- > anyway, nbc news had a short piece 2 days ago that the
- > space telescope had resolved the nucleus of a galaxy
- > to a much better resolution than b/f, i think it's
- > supposed to be a 100 times smaller than previously
- > believed. from the picture they showed, one can easily
- > discern the boundary plus a jet-like structure emanating
- > from one of the poles.
- >
- > apparently, it's highly unlikely to be anything but a black hole.
-
- I want to know why it can't be a really massive neutron star. Don't
- they have accretion disks and spew jets of hot gas out from their
- magnetic poles? What data is available other than the image from
- Hubble?
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