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Medium9
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I do have a question that bothers me for some days now. I'm not too sure how qualified it is, but my mind needs to be eased here.
I understand, that it may be taken as a fact, that BHs cause enough gravity to make photons "vanish" behind the event horizon. So like with any stellar object, there needs to be a breaking point, a balance between "this particle will escape" and "this particle will fall down"; an orbit. So if photons escape BHs at one distance, but fall into it at a closer one, there necessarily has to be a distance where photons will actually orbit a BH, or at least circle around it for considerable time. Of course, that area would be RIGHT above the event horizon.
If this assumption is accurate, then any matter that is pulled in needs to cross this orbital zone, and there should be a chance for this matter to be hit by such an orbiting photon - of which I could imagine quite many to be there. This then should either cause heat, or scattered radiation directly, which should then be measurable.
Has this been considered and attempted to either calculate or measured by someone? If so, are there any noteworthy results? (Preferably in terms that a non-physicist has a chance to understand
Thanks in advance,
Medium9
I understand, that it may be taken as a fact, that BHs cause enough gravity to make photons "vanish" behind the event horizon. So like with any stellar object, there needs to be a breaking point, a balance between "this particle will escape" and "this particle will fall down"; an orbit. So if photons escape BHs at one distance, but fall into it at a closer one, there necessarily has to be a distance where photons will actually orbit a BH, or at least circle around it for considerable time. Of course, that area would be RIGHT above the event horizon.
If this assumption is accurate, then any matter that is pulled in needs to cross this orbital zone, and there should be a chance for this matter to be hit by such an orbiting photon - of which I could imagine quite many to be there. This then should either cause heat, or scattered radiation directly, which should then be measurable.
Has this been considered and attempted to either calculate or measured by someone? If so, are there any noteworthy results? (Preferably in terms that a non-physicist has a chance to understand
Thanks in advance,
Medium9