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arxiv: astro-ph/0012531 · v1 · submitted 2000-12-29 · 🌌 astro-ph

Bulk Motion Comptonization - a sure sign of Black Holes

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Bulk motion Comptonization utilizes properties of both matter and radiation close to the horizon of a black hole. Computation with these considerations produce hard tails of energy spectral slope $\sim 1.5-1.7$. These are the most direct evidence of the horizon of a black hole. We argue that even in presence of winds and outflows this property is not likely to change as winds are negligible in soft states.

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