Loose Leaf For Explorations: Introduction To Astronomy
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ISBN: 9781260432145
Author: Thomas T Arny, Stephen E Schneider Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 7TY
What evidence leads astronomers to believe that they have detected black holes?
- (a) They have seen tiny dark spots drift across the face of some distant stars.
- (b) They have detected pulses of ultraviolet
radiation coming from within black holes. - (c) They have seen X rays, perhaps from gas around a black hole, suddenly disappear as a companion star eclipses the hole.
- (d) They have seen a star suddenly disappear as it was swallowed by a black hole.
- (e) They have looked inside a black hole with X ray telescopes.
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