Converging black holes resemble comets;
their tails, shading from intense gold to blood red, reach toward each other;
where they meet, atoms become plasma;
each black hole draws matter from the interstellar medium;
disappearing matter emits "...a blaze of radiation." (p. 117);
interacting black holes double the infall;
the accretion discs interact, generating visible light, then X-rays;
Dagmar hyperjumps closer.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I also thought of "Kyrie," where we see Poul Anderson first using black holes, even tho that term was not yet being used. How different was the description of black holes in the earlier and later stories?
Sean
Sean,
I read A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT to see how Twain described time travel before Wells had coined that term. (Twain wrote: "transposition of epochs.")
I will now have to reread "Kyrie" to see what Anderson says instead of "black hole."
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I wondered because in the more than 30 years separating "Kyrie" from FOR LOVE AND GLORY, there must have been changes in what scientists thought about black holes.
Sean
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