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What images do you most want to see from JWST?
« on: 04/08/2022 14:56:32 »
Me? Brown dwarfs and extra-solar planets.

Also, what already produced image from it do you like the most?
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Re: What images do you most want to see from JWST?
« Reply #1 on: 04/08/2022 22:54:04 »
I would like to see stars circling the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
- At infra-red wavelengths, it should be possible to see more stars than we can see with ground-based telescopes
- and see how active the accretion disk is now
- By watching nearby stars move over a period of years, we should be able to predict when the accretion disk might fire up again.
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Re: What images do you most want to see from JWST?
« Reply #2 on: 05/08/2022 14:41:25 »
Quote from: evan_au on 04/08/2022 22:54:04
I would like to see stars circling the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
- At infra-red wavelengths, it should be possible to see more stars than we can see with ground-based telescopes
- and see how active the accretion disk is now
- By watching nearby stars move over a period of years, we should be able to predict when the accretion disk might fire up again.
Are you sure? There is a theory that seeing too much of a black hole and its functioning may cause insanity.
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Re: What images do you most want to see from JWST?
« Reply #3 on: 06/08/2022 02:04:11 »
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There is a theory that seeing too much of a black hole and its functioning may cause insanity.
Source, please?

There is very little of a black hole you can see from outside the event horizon
- And not a very long time that you can observe a black hole from within the event horizon.
- But I imagine that watching an accretion disk could be rather hypnotic
      - provided you didn't get too close, and get toasted by X-Rays
      - or join it and get turned into X-Rays
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