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2 Aug 2024 22:12:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Black Hole Research - new version  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 6 May 2007 12:01:09
Message: <463dfbc5$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:
> Orchid XP v3 nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007-05-06 09:21:
> 
>> Mmm... that ship *is* too close to the event horizon! ;-)
> 
> In space, it's extremely hard to corectly evaluate distances. The black 
> hole may be at a somewhat safe distance...

Well, if it's a stellar black hole, the schwarzschild radius shouldn't
be more than a few hundred km and you don't want to see that as a disk.
If it's a super-massive black hole, you don't want to be close enough
to see a single star falling in as a large disk.


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