How much larger than the sun? Methinks this is comms for a solar event.
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No, a binary system is when two bodies revolve around their center of mass..
In a quasar there ARE two bodies. The quasar is so named because they appear to blink: there is a big star AND a Black Hole. Both of them have a centre of mass.
The blinking is caused when the star moves behind the hole, and it re-appears when the black hole slips behind the star. Of course, we cannot see the black hole, only the blinking star. This theory was explained by Carl Sagan back in the eighties.
It’s a pulsar that seems to blink, or pulse.
The etymology of quasar is quasi-stellar, because earlier astronomers detected that quasars emit radio frequencies like stars do, but behave unlike stars in other respects. A quasar is the nucleus of a galaxy and is made of pieces from many more than two bodies. It surrounds the super massive black hole whose gravity crushes stars and other objects down into small bits. A binary system wouldn’t survive the gravity of a super massive black hole and its surrounding quasar.
Next time, look it up yourself instead of trying to remember Carl Sagan from forty years ago.
LOL I love it.
A quasar is an AGN -- active galactic nuclei. It is a feeding super massive black hole. Material in the accretion disc moves at different speeds and can reach 80% the speed of light determined by its distance from the center of mass. Tremendous magnetic forces and friction are created heating the disc up to millions of degrees. Some of this material escapes through jets at the poles. It is these jets and the friction in the accretion disc that produce light that outshines entire galaxies.
Pretty sure it is these jets that create the gamma ray bursters and if one is pointed at your world, even billions of light years away, you are cooked. Im also pretty sure that SagA*, the SMB at the center of the Milky Way, has had an active phase like this in its past.
This story appears to be comms as most space stories are.
I agree. Tell it to the user named Sadness