Re:Gigantic jet spied from black hole in early universe
by gbrown on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:01AM
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No, it means what it says - the growth rate is too high for known mechanisms, so they’re looking for explanations. The mass in the universe isn’t the issue, it’s that there are limits on the growth rate of black holes which grow through accreting matter.
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Re:Gigantic jet spied from black hole in early universe
by hinkley on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:35PM
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The article opines that the accretion disk converts velocity of particles around the black hole into the jet, causing more matter to fall in.
Re:Gigantic jet spied from black hole in early universe
by gbrown on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:06PM
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That misses the point - jets are one mechanism whereby the matter can lose some energy and fall in, but they occur due to the high energy of accreting matter, and their existance does not solve the problem of the growth rate of these things. We are able to detect and characterize this object in part thanks to the jets, but the problem of mass remains.