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Title: The Edge Of Inifinty


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The Edge Of Inifinty
  • Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe
  • By Fulvio Melia

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What is a Black Hole?
  • An area of space-time where the gravitational
    force is so strong that not even light can escape
  • Normal Black Holes 10-20 solar masses
  • Supermassive gt1000 solar masses, possibly
    billions

3
If Nothing Can Escape, How Can We Detect Them?
  • Radiation from infalling matter
  • Gravitational clues
  • Ejected Plasma

4
Where Are They?
  • Nuclei of galaxies with a central bulge
  • Astronomers believe billions of them exist in the
    universe

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How Do They Form?
  • Highly Debated
  • Collapse of a supernova?
  • Accretion?
  • Galactic Collision?
  • Merging of smaller black holes?

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Is the Universe a Black Hole?
  • Schwarzschild Radius scales directly with its
    total mass but for a given mass the density drops
    off inversely with the enclosed volume (radius
    cubed)
  • 100kg person r 10-23cm, p 1073g/cm3
  • Sun r 3km, p 1016g/cm3
  • 100 million Suns r 2.4x108km p 1g/cm3
  • Known Universe r 12 billion light years, p
    5x10-30g/cm3
  • Density is equivalent to 6 hydrogen atoms per m3
  • Of all the possible average densities that the
    universe could have had, why is it that the one
    with which it is apparently endowed is so
    strikingly close to the value needed to create an
    event horizon at the edge of what is visible?
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