Publication Date:
2011-08-17
Description:
Ionized matter falling onto an isolated rotating black hole will be heated sufficiently that proton-proton collisions will produce mesons, including neutral pions, which decay into gamma rays. For massive (1000-solar mass) black holes, the resulting gamma-ray luminosity may exceed 10 to the 36th erg/s with a spectrum peaked near 20 MeV.
Keywords:
ASTROPHYSICS
Type:
Astronomy and Astrophysics; 74; 1, Ap; Apr. 197
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