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Old 29-November-2007, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jerry View Post
Do I dare ask if this ejected cannonball will absorb gas, evolving into badly gravitationally redshifted broadline emitter?
You seem to have asked, so I suppose that you dared do it.
How much gas do you think it would absorb, traveling through the interstellar medium? How gravitationally redshifted do you think it will be? I think the idea that this would be observable as a redshifted emitter is pretty low.
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