alienist comments on Stupid Questions December 2014 - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Gondolinian 08 December 2014 03:39PM

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Comment author: alienist 27 December 2014 01:49:34AM 8 points [-]

I wasn't talking about Hawkings radiation. If I throw matter in a black hole just right, I can get half the mass to come out in low-entropy photons. That's why the brightest objects in the universe are black holes that are currently eating something.

Comment author: orthonormal 27 December 2014 02:36:39AM 3 points [-]

Ah, cool! Forgot about how quasars are hypothesized to work.