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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Black Hole BLOWBACK
** Tucker, Harvey Tananbaum and Andrew Fabian
Scientific American
Vol. 296, No. 3 (MARCH 2007), pp. 42-49
Published by: Scientific American, a division of Nature America, Inc.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26069189
Page Count: 8
关于galaxy...大概就是说galaxy里面有Hot gas,发出x-ray会产生trillions of new stars
The gas, which is heated primarily by the slow gravitational collapse of the cluster, gives off x-rays. Optical telescopes cannot see the gas, and x-rays cannot penetrate Earth’s atmosphere, so the discovery and study of this gas has depended on orbiting observatories. Two decades ago astronomers peering with NASA’s Einstein X-ray Observatory and other instruments noticed that the x-rays carry away so much energy that the gas should steadily cool off and settle into the center of the cluster—thus the term “cooling flow.” One of us (Fabian) led the way in investigating these flows using Einstein and later Germany’s ROSAT x-ray satellite. He and his colleagues calculated the flows would have quite dramatic effects. If they persisted for a billion years, the gas deposited in the central regions of the cluster could form trillions of new stars.
The only trouble was, no one could find them. Observers looked in vain for large amounts of cool gas and hordes of newly formed stars. If a black hole had swallowed them all, it would weigh as much as a trillion stars, and not even the biggest black hole is that massive. Another one of us (Tucker) maintained that large-scale, long-term cooling flows do not exist. A possible explanation was that long-lasting outbursts of energy from the central galaxy of the cluster heated the gas enough to offset the radiative cooling. Radio astronomers had for years been accumulating evidence for such activity. But it was questionable whether the outbursts provided enough energy distributed over a large enough volume to halt the cooling flows, so the paradox remained: the hot cluster gas must cool, but the end product of the cooling mysteriously escaped detection.
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