[Agent_Koopa]

Alright, thanks. That's very interesting. I assume this is a rotating black hole then? Hmm... does the plasma just randomly decay into gamma radiation?

hi,
how do you mean rotation? that the spikes are random over the blackhole?
everytime if i say pictures the matter was concentrated on a wafer around the hole and the spikes was in a 90° angle on both poles.

like so:
         - gas/x-ray streams
        |
____|____ - matterwafer
        |
        |

but i think the wikipedia entry can you better answer your question as me and he looks really interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_holes

Mehrpack

No, no, I've seen that picture too. I'm just wondering how those jets and the "accretion disc" (the wafer you were talking about) actually form. I'm wondering if the black hole spins on its axis.

[Mehrpack]

hi,
that the matter that rush in the black hole.

look at our solarsystem, the planets do cyling around the sun, the only reason that they doesnt fall in the sun is that the centrifugal force are so high like the gravitation force of the sun.
but the graviation force of a black hole are overwhelming, its like a drain in the universum.
so the disk are compare to water thats rush in the drain.

black holes are like my dog, eating all, dont question what it is 

to the second question: mhh dont know, but a good question .

Mehrpack

[jr2]

StumbleUpon to the rescue.  http://www.thinktechnologies.com/portfolio/demos/Blackhole.html

[AlphaOne]

well then could you not counteract the time dilating effects of a black hole wia a similar but oposing force??? ior field or something??

[Mehrpack]

StumbleUpon to the rescue.  http://www.thinktechnologies.com/portfolio/demos/Blackhole.html

hi,
nice animation and explain in fast steps a black hole.

well then could you not counteract the time dilating effects of a black hole wia a similar but oposing force??? ior field or something??

thats not so easy like it sound.
look gravitation do everytime influence the time, on earth too.
if you stand on the mount everyrest and i, for example, stand on the ground of the sea, and both of us had an atomic-clock, then we could see that the time are going for us to different.
for you faster as for me.
or if you drive with a car or fly in a aircraft, then the time going for you slower as for a human that stand still.

the gravitation of the black hole is millions time stronger as our gravitation that we have here on earth.
i doesnt know and i think theres no other force in the universum thats are strong enough (i know that the gravitation the faintest elementary force is) to counter the influcence of space and time.

Mehrpack

[Agent_Koopa]

Black holes slowly lose mass in the form of Hawking radiation.

That doesn't count, the black holes don't actually take their mass and turn it into energy.

well then could you not counteract the time dilating effects of a black hole wia a similar but oposing force??? ior field or something??

With what? Where would we get this similar but opposing force? As I understand it, the time dilation is caused by the curvature of spacetime itself, so there wouldn't be much you could do. And the only results I got from Google on "ior field" were about increased oil retrieval.

[Turey]

With what?

a White Hole, perhaps?