A quasar, too heavy to be true
[[Mod. note -- I apologise for the delay in processing this article.
It arrived in my moderation queue on 2017-12-18, just before an
extended power/internet outage at my location.
-- jt]]
In article , jacob navia
writes:
1) At z = 1000 we have a temperature of 2,728 degrees... Completely new
and unknown processes must have been at work to form structures like a
black hole at those temperatures. And nothing less than a black hole of
1E4 solar masses. It seems (to me) impossible that gravity can condense
something at those temperatures.
A star can have a central temperature of tens of millions of degrees,
yet gravity manages to condense the star into a black hole as soon as
fusion can't generate enough radiation pressure to balance gravity.
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