A spaceship is located around 2.6×10¹³ km from the black hole Messier 87. It has a mass of 6.6 billion suns. How long will their day last compared to a day on Earth?

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A spaceship is located around 2.6×10¹³ km from the black hole Messier 87. It has a
mass of 6.6 billion suns. How long will their day last compared to a day on Earth?
Transcribed Image Text:A spaceship is located around 2.6×10¹³ km from the black hole Messier 87. It has a mass of 6.6 billion suns. How long will their day last compared to a day on Earth?
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Concept and Principle:
  • Time is not absolute, it depends on the speed and gravitational field present. The time measured will be slower when there is a large gravitational field present.

 

  • When the clock is closer to the gravitational source slower the time measured. This effect is called gravitational time dilation.

 

  • Gravitational time dilation is given by,

t=t012GMrc2

Here t is the change in time in the gravitationally influenced reference frame, t0 is the change in time in a reference frame an infinite distance from any mass (a "standard" hour), c is the speed of light, G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the object being approached, and r the distance from the object being approached

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