Today on Punk Science TV, we shall discuss galactic lightning.

What happens if you peer into a black hole?

Scientists have found a storm of gamma-rays inside a black hole that they are comparing to lightning.

They were looking at the galaxy IC 310 and witnessed its brightness shifting over just five minutes. Bear in mind that these scientists still think that black holes are destructive so they think these emissions are caused by material being gobbled up by the black hole.

Why the sudden flare-up?

But it takes at least 25 minutes for an object to cross the event horizon in their models. So why are these variations of galactic gamma-ray lightning happening so quickly?

All can be explained by the Black Hole Principle which says that gamma-ray bursts are created intermittently by the recombination of matter and antimatter at the edge of the black hole producing jets at the speed of light.

Sometimes the process goes the other way and matter and antimatter are formed from light. The process is breathing.

The Black Hole Principle

It is this breathing process that is creating the fluctuating brightness.

And of course, I have said before thunderstorms on earth are created in exactly the same way only smaller. It’s the same process all the way down.

Image: James Gordon Graham

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