An x-ray photon escapes the accretion disk of a black hole of 5 solar masses and a radius of 14.7 km. Calculate the redshift caused by the gravity of the black hole.

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An x-ray photon escapes the accretion disk of a black hole of 5 solar masses and a radius of 14.7 km.
Calculate the redshift caused by the gravity of the black hole.
Transcribed Image Text:An x-ray photon escapes the accretion disk of a black hole of 5 solar masses and a radius of 14.7 km. Calculate the redshift caused by the gravity of the black hole.
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Concept and Principle:
  • As per general relativity due to space-time curvature, the frequency of the photon will reduce as it moves away from a gravitational source. When a photon leaves a gravitational well redshift takes place and is called gravitational redshift.

 

  • The gravitational redshift caused by a strong source is given by,

z=112GMrc21

Here z is the gravitational redshift, G is Newton’s gravitational constant, M is the mass of the object, r is the photon’s starting distance from M, and c is the speed of light.

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