Tag Archives: Lighthouse

Jet Creation

Posted on December 18, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Dialogos of Eide

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Symmetry Breaking and the Crab Nebula

Posted on December 13, 2013 by PlatoHagel

The connection between superfluidity and symmetry breaking has had a glorious history. It has left us a rich legacy of fertile ideas, that seems far from exhaustion. PG 60 Superfluidity and Symmetry Breaking You know while there have been processes … Continue reading →

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A Jet in the Milky Way

Posted on November 25, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Composite image of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Image Credit:  X-ray: NASA/CXC/UCLA/Z. Li et al; Radio: NRAO/VLA Astronomers have long sought strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive … Continue reading →

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Glowing Blackholes

Posted on May 14, 2013 by PlatoHagel

(Courtesy: NASA E/PO, Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet) The birth of a black hole may be signalled by a characteristic cosmic flash, according to researchers in the US. It was previously thought that only the most massive of black holes … Continue reading →

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GRB 130427A: Highest-energy Light Ever Detected

Posted on May 3, 2013 by PlatoHagel

The maps in this animation show how the sky looks at gamma-ray energies above 100 million electron volts (MeV) with a view centered on the north galactic pole. The first frame shows the sky during a three-hour interval prior to … Continue reading →

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The Developmental Jet Process

Posted on November 1, 2011 by PlatoHagel

As a layman I have been going through the research of those better educated then I in order to construct a accurate syntactically written developed scientific process as I have become aware of it. This is what I have been … Continue reading →

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Small Big Bangs?

Posted on May 24, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Gamma-ray bursts. We tend to think of them as big explosions – but it has been suggested that they might actually be Small Bangs. Credit: NASA. Most gamma-ray bursts come in two flavors. Firstly, there are long duration bursts which … Continue reading →

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Crab Nebula

Posted on January 8, 2011 by PlatoHagel

This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years … Continue reading →

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Fermi Records Lighthouse Effect

Posted on October 29, 2009 by PlatoHagel

John Keats talked of “unweaving the rainbow”, suggesting that Newton destroyed the beauty of nature by analysing light with a prism and splitting it into different colours. Keats was being a prat. Physicists also smile when we see rainbows, but … Continue reading →

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Glast now Known as "Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope"

Posted on August 28, 2008 by PlatoHagel

BEHOLDING beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities, for he has hold not of an image but of a reality, and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue … Continue reading →

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