Why did the Crab Nebula shine for several years? If the high energy level of atoms in some black hole is merely a relativistic effect of gravitational contraction (leading to increased density), then it seems unlikely that atoms were slowly leaking energy for several years. Therefore it must have been the collapsing black hole that was leaking energy for several years, and the energy that was being released was the ‘free energy’ required to supply the current flow to power the magnetic dynamo. This energy would have been released as the black hole ‘spun down’ throwing off layers of material in much the same way as someone might peel an onion.







I find the arrangement of material in the Crab Nebula to be of interest. In the image above you can see what looks like a fairly homogenous cloud of nitrogen (in red) which seems to have been flung into space en masse. Below this is my model of the increasing densities of elements on the periodic table (a linear function) placed next to a model of a gravitational well, which follows the inverse square law, with greater density near the bottom, and less density near the top. What I am suggesting here is that atoms are created in layers in a powerful gravitational well, the black-hole, and therefore it would not be to surprising to see one layer of that onion thrown off in a fairly homogenous state. This model is more consistent than the suggestion that the Crab Nebula was formed by an exploding star, which then leaves us to ponder the homogeneity of that nitrogen cloud.

Now how could it be the case that some black hole could ‘slowly spin down’ and take several years to do so? What we need to keep in mind here is that black hole time passes as a glacial speed relative the rest of the universe, so if we were to say that the black hole ‘spun down’ as its magnetic field collapsed, and this took ‘several years’ that is an incredibly fast spin down. In black hole time that would be almost instantaneous. The fact that it would have seemed to have taken several years is what is really remarkable, because you would think something like that might seem to take a thousand years rather than two or three. However as black holes spin down, black hole time speeds up, and so there is this interesting relativistic effect, in that the very beginning of that black hole spin down takes most of the time that seemed to pass in those two or three years, while the rest of that spin down would have occurred perhaps in the last weeks or months.

One thing I find puzzling here is the imbalance that appears to be present in this structure. The nitrogen appears to exist in greater quantities than everything else and it appears to have been flung out into space with greater force. Now I have been wondering just what it could be that could cause the magnetic field generated by some black hole to collapse, and here I have an example of what was apparently an imbalanced black hole, which, for some reason, apparently made to much nitrogen. Nitrogen is one of the lighter elements on the periodic table, so this would imply that a black hole was imbalanced somehow at the top. This would then push the dozen or so lighter elements on top of nitrogen higher up in the field. If that was impossible, and if the nitrogen could not move down in the field, then the nitrogen would be under incredible expansion pressure.

One hypothesis I have been considering holds that there is a constant tug of war going on between the black hole and the hyper-energetic atoms trapped in its field. The atoms are under extreme expansion pressure, while the black hole generates a tremendous compression force. So therefore the insides of a black hole oscillate, everything inside expands, and the result is crushing counter force of compression generated by the black hole field. This crushing could then create more atoms, generating more expansion force, followed by more crushing, followed by more atoms. According to this model the eventual collapse of the black hole field would be inevitable, because the black hole is constantly making a little more atoms each time it oscillates inside. In the case of the black hole illustrated above, it would seem that it made far to much nitrogen, and this eventually led to the degeneration and sudden spin down and collapse of that black hole.