Black Holes and Gravitation Theory

A diagram illustrating Light Echoes (emerging) From Behind a Black Hole. XMM-Newton has made the first ever observation of light coming from behind a black hole. The key reads: Black hole - Diameter 30 million km, 10 million times the mass of our Sun, Light Echoes, Corona - 60 million km high above black hole, producing X-rays, Flare - Extremely bright flash of X-rays lasting 2.5 hours. 1. Hot, spinning disk of gas falling into black hole. 2. Corona produces bright flares of X-ray light. 3. X-rays reflect off the disk. 4. X-ray echoes from behind the black hole are bent around it by extreme gravity.

Black holes, particularly after merging, exhibit “ringing” or quasinormal mode echoes – vibrations that decay over time.

The decay rate is also governed by the same constants and thought to represent the fastest possible relaxation time allowed by Quantum Mechanics.

The echoes in black holes and the sluggish, viscous conductivity in strange metals both reflect a deeply entangled quantum state – one where information spreads rapidly and irreversibly.

In both cases, the system’s response to perturbations is dictated not by Classical Mechanics, but by universal quantum bounds.































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