Wednesday 17 April 2013

Quasars, time-space connections at the edge of chaos of a supermassive black hole

At the center of active galaxies there is a supermassive black hole that consume all the material around (gas and dust that falls into the discs of accretion). Quasars are powerful electromagnetic emission sources, formed during this processes.

Quasars are located at a critical distance, where there is an equilibrium between the gravity force of the super massive black hole and the scape speed of the electromagnetic radiation (edge of chaos). The mechanism implied in the transformation of matter into electromagnetic energy is unknown; it is 10 times more energetic than the processes of nuclear fusion that occurs inside of solar stars. Once the supermassive black hole consume all the matter around, the quasar disappears and the galaxy becomes inactive.

The first quasars were discovered at the end of the fifties and beginning of the sixties. In the year 1979 the gravitational lens effect predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was confirmed observationally for the first time with images of a double quasar. By that time appeared the first movie of "Star Trek" (1979). In the 1980s, unified models for quasars were developed. By that time appeared the movies "Terminator" (1984) and "Back to the Future" (1985).


(90482) Orcus and a quasar of a supermassive black hole
"Prince of Persia - Sands of Time" (2010)