Sunday, March 13, 2011

Musical Quasars

When house music forms a binary star system with cosmic lyrics...the result is a song of intergalactic proportions.

Cosmic Girl (Tom Belton Remix) by Jamiroquai. One of the best songs I have in my music library.

Listen to the lyrics...the physics makes sense!




Anyway the lyrics talk about Quasars:

Quasars or Quasistellar objects appear to be point like sources of light and radio waves that are very far away. We know this due to very large red shifts - they are at the limits of our observable universe. Because we still see/detect these stars, they must be emitting a load of energy for their size (10^40 W!).

We still have yet to understand how this energy is made, but some theoretical models rely on super massive blackholes. They think the energy results from whole stars "falling" into these black holes.

Cool! Would love to see one!

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