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I mean... 7 hours isn't that long. Especially depending on the size of the star that was consumed. Even the Sun's light can take thousands of years to actually exit the sun. While sure, gamma rays should have an easier time exiting a star, 7 hours is still a fucking photograph flash to a stellar event...
(also who ever is surprised a black hole would win against ANY star is either playing a fool or fucking braindead)
Not disagreeing, but you're oddly intense about this... you good champ?
Saying, "fuck" twice is hardly being intense.
Dude you're replying to must think my posts are fucking intense.
Whoa, chill out there partner.
THIS PARTY IS FUCKING WILD WOOOOO!
Even the Sun's light can take thousands of years to actually exit the sun.
The wording is not how light from our sun works... Unless you're simplifying greatly. It's not in a maze or some container that takes thousands of years to escape. The light is based on photons that are emitted via nuclear fusion then some mass being converted to energy/photons.
I've read that photons can bounce around (i.e. be absorbed and re-emitted) an estimated 40,000 years... but we all should understand that is a) an estimate and b) an estimate for the inner-most photons. Photons created via near-surface level areas of the sun may be emitted outward from the sun near-instantaneously.
All this to say that the light/photon(s) don't/doesn't start out as light. However, once a photon exists, it may be trapped for thousands of years due to the shear amount of mass trapping it and needing to be absorbed/re-emitted until space-bound!
Greatly simplifying, yes.
The point is the vast majority of stellar scale events are crazy slow compared to what we'd normally assume, because stars are insanely huge. 7 hours is still a flash in the pan.
The black hole didn't just drop straight in. The sun was undoubtedly orbiting the black hole. It'd take time for the matter to even get close enough. 7 hours sounds crazy fast to me.
If minutes is normal for a gamma ray burst, hours is an order of magnitude longer. Still, flash in the pan indeed! Lucky we caught it.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in
I have dreams of this level of gluttony
Very hungry caterpillar?
I guess that implies the force of a black hole is still the strongest that we've observed in the cosmos outside of pure light poles and electromagnetism seen shooting out of them, but it's not so strong that it scales up infinitely.
Or maybe we just managed to see this one event from a good angle.