<div dir="ltr">> <span style="font-size:large">because it is about 1000 times more massive.</span><div><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large">Yeah, but Sagittarius is 2000 times closer. Per unit of mass therefore 4000000 million times more luminous. 4000 times more luminous in absolute terms.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large">Sagittarius should be the most "luminous" black hole for us, just as the Sun is the most luminous star for us.</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 4:34 PM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:54 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_387038156384747962gmail-m_-1614520453698644026WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>COOL!</p><p class="MsoNormal">I am amazed that it is asymmetric and the thermal spectrum is so non-uniform.</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">It looks asymmetric because the matter in the accretion disk is moving very close to the speed of light and as it orbits some of it is going toward us and some is going away so one side looks brighter than the other. The inner edge of the bright part comes from the photosphere, the last place where light can stably orbit and has a radius of 1.5 times the Schwarzschild event horizon, however because gravity is so strong we are able </font></font><font size="4"> to see the back side of the Black Hole too so it works out that the dark part in the center of the picture is 2.6 times the radius of the event horizon. To the limits of measurement it looks exactly how Einstein said it should, it would have been even more exciting if it didn't.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">I assume they chose to image M87 instead of the Black Hole in the center of our own galaxy because it is about 1000 times more massive.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div></div></div>
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