NASA | GLASTcast | Episode 1: What is GLAST?

[arabbado2011]

great video !!!!!!!!!!

[vlatin1]

So apparently, astronomers will use GLAST to study how black holes accelerate jets of gas outward at high speeds. Wait a minute, when mathematicians invented these infinitely dense point-masses, we were told that nothing could escape a black hole once it has crossed the event horizon. So how are these magical jets accelerating out of a black hole? I thought gravity was an attractive force. Hey NASA, you know what, we live in an Electric Universe, not a gravitational universe.

[CutzmanX]

@vlatin1: You bring up a few good points and yes nothing can escape the event horizon meaning that the jets are outside of the horizon. The leading hypothesis is that the black hole's gigantic mass distorts space and time around it, twisting magnetic field lines into a coil that propels material outward. So yes, the jets may be electric, but what holds the galaxy together and why things fall into the black hole is gravity. (I work with data from GLAST, now called Fermi LAT)

[sirnicholson]

i have the means to watch a electron force that splits into a beam and a ray.youll be surprised of the outcome

[RarewareLover]

59-1:01 are from a the Duracell commercials

[Triphylla]

the universe is pure awesome

[SpanerMagnet]

indeed it is

[classicsfreestyle]

the universe is pure energy

[chris661133]

thanks for that