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[...] A new analysis by researchers at UC Santa Cruz, published June 14 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, explains these and other puzzling features of active galactic nuclei as the result of small clouds of dust that can partially obscure the innermost regions of AGNs.
[...] The findings have important implications because researchers use the optical emissions from the broad-line region to make inferences about the behavior of the gases in the inner regions around a supermassive black hole.
[...] "Once the dust crosses a certain threshold it is subjected to the strong radiation from the accretion disk," said Harrington. "This radiation is so intense that it blows the dust away from the disk, resulting in a clumpy outflow of dust clouds starting at the outer edge of the broad-line region."
The effect of the dust clouds on the light emitted is to make the light coming from behind them look fainter and redder, just as Earth's atmosphere makes the sun look fainter and redder at sunset. In their paper, Gaskell and Harrington present several lines of observational evidence supporting the existence of such dust clouds in the inner regions of active galactic nuclei. They developed a computer code to model the effects of dust clouds on observations of the broad-line region.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180614213615.htm
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @04:16PM (13 children)
A computer "code"? What is this, the 1960s?
Anyway, the center of the Galaxy is likely a plasmoid [youtu.be], not a black hole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @04:24PM (3 children)
Why use a link shortener if you are going to go through the trouble of making a hyperlink?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @04:37PM (2 children)
I just use it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @06:47PM (1 child)
What country are you form?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @02:33AM
Pretty sure he's from Anarchocapitalatopia. It's like Best Libertopia over there.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Sunday June 17 2018, @06:59PM (6 children)
The authors themselves speak of it this way. I don't know what decade that they believe it to be, if not the current one. From TFA:
So there's that.
That there are a small few on the fringes who suggest that the universe is totally made of electric strings, does not make them "probably" right. There exists a chance, of course, but it's less than the 50% of "probably" fame. In fact, it's probably something more like this:
Let n = number of scientists who think it's not electric strings
Let s = number of scientists who think it's totally electric strings
The likelihood you are seeking is more like ~= 100 * ( s / (n + s) ) %.
On the Gamma Ray Burst article, you double posted. On this one, you double posted--twice. Either you or some aspect of your workflow should put down the Internet and back slowly away for a time. Happens to all of us.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @08:08PM (5 children)
I suggest some others of you back away from the downmod labels.
(Score: 4, Informative) by requerdanos on Sunday June 17 2018, @08:34PM (4 children)
Anyone who repeatedly spams the same post repeatedly in a repeated manner should be modded into oblivion, as a public service to others.
As for "when legit posts downmodded", the remedy is to wait patiently for someone to mod the "legit" post up, which counteracts the downmod. If someone's otherwise "legit" post is repeated multiple times, that actually confirms what the original downmodder was saying.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @09:56PM (3 children)
That's the deal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @10:31PM
Why?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @05:51AM
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 18 2018, @12:46PM
I have a solution to that - don't care. You're self-signaling that you're not worth reading. Why would I take that away from you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @12:36PM
Programmers still write code. And those people have no intention of selling that code, so they don't need to use any hipster terms to refer to it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 18 2018, @01:00PM
Gravity has a way of making small perturbations in a near uniform distribution of mass bigger and hence, triggering galaxy formation in the early universe. Electromagnetism does not. For example, note how this site [plasma-universe.com] describes "plasmoids":
In other words, a huge, relatively coherent energy input and a medium. We have the medium, we don't have the coherent energy input.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @04:40PM (1 child)
A computer "code"? What is this, the 1960s?
Anyway, the center of the Galaxy is likely a plasmoid [youtu.be], not a black hole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @05:41AM
It's not the 1960's where I am, but you may still be stuck in a GOTO loop
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @05:20PM
A computer "code"? What is this, the 1960s?
Anyway, the center of the Galaxy is likely a plasmoid [youtu.be], not a black hole.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @05:56PM
A computer "code"? What is this, the 1960s?
Anyway, the center of the Galaxy is likely a plasmoid [youtu.be], not a black hole.