For anyone wondering.. a blazer, like a quasar, is just a supermassive BH at the center of a galaxy, but the BH is consuming a ton of matter. It gets a huge accretion disc and big relativistic jets. If those jets are pointed right at us, the brightness is insane, and it will vary a lot. So a blasar is just a quasar (feeding SMBH) pointed at us.
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Could someone explain why this is evidence for a binary SMBH instead of precession of a single SMBH?
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A sinusoidal pattern for a rotating object is exactly what we should expect?
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Like watching a top spin from above? The axis precesses over time and we see pulsing?
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For anyone wondering.. a blazer, like a quasar, is just a supermassive BH at the center of a galaxy, but the BH is consuming a ton of matter. It gets a huge accretion disc and big relativistic jets. If those jets are pointed right at us, the brightness is insane, and it will vary a lot. So a blasar is just a quasar (feeding SMBH) pointed at us.
Could someone explain why this is evidence for a binary SMBH instead of precession of a single SMBH?
A sinusoidal pattern for a rotating object is exactly what we should expect?
Like watching a top spin from above? The axis precesses over time and we see pulsing?