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Old 08-September-2005, 05:32 AM
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Recently, I was watching an video from Scientific exploration show. They mentioned the gamma ray from every direction. I mean they detected gamma ray coming from different directions every single day (not coming from the Sun). @_@ how do I put this in a speciific sentence... ok let me put it this way, our milky way galaxy also emitted gamma ray, but it takes about a hundred million years to travel to other region. Instead, scientist detected gamma ray coming from different direction every single day. I hope you get my point ><. Unfortunately, the show ended without telling the answer ^_^... I was wondering can someone tell me why? Cound it be the super massive blackholes or Quasars or dark energy? If the answer is the black hole, how is it possible? Blackhole doesn't emits light... so could it be something else?
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Old 08-September-2005, 06:17 AM
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Cound it be the super massive blackholes or Quasars or dark energy? If the answer is the black hole, how is it possible? Blackhole doesn't emits light... so could it be something else?
I don't believe the answer is known yet. There are gamma ray sources, "Gamma Ray Bursts", some observed each day in all directions.

Chandra X-Ray Obervatory Field Guide, page 3 of 5:

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The source of this tremendous energy is unknown. Astronomers have developed a model – the fireball model – that explains the time variation of the bursts, and the shift of the peak radiation to progressively lower energies reasonably well. The model involves matter moving at near the speed of light that collides with other material in the vicinity.

What is the source of this rapidly moving matter? Theories include the merging of neutron stars, or black holes, or the collapse of an extremely massive star to produce what has been called a hypernova.
NASA: Solving the Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Old 08-September-2005, 10:44 AM
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The fact that Gamma ray bursts are detected daily and from every direction not just the local galaxy. I would sagest this has more to do with the extream energy out bursts from nova'ing super stars and the shear size of the universe.
We cant know all of these things, and may never. This could be a good thing. Becouse if one of these things ever happens around here, We are gone. Planet Earth steralized in a flash. Not a good plan. cancel that thought.
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