Cosmic Factories Produce Rubies and Sapphires

Like enormous jewel factories in the sky, the chaotic environments around some supermassive black holes crank out prodigious amounts of glass, rubies and sapphires, a new study finds.



http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071009-quasar-jewels.html

Don't these scientists know rubies are red sapphires??:shrug::shrug:

 

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Apparently they are different varieties of corundum, so can be talked about seperately as "rubies and sapphires".

 

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Why would a ruby have a hard time surviving in space? It's made of crystallized aluminum oxide, which is one of the more resistant materials known. It resists chemicals and heat.

 

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God gots to have his bling bling.

 

You got that right the universe is his playground.

 

<doh!> I thought that said rabies.

anyways for some reason I thought only good rubies were found in Burma. I really need to listen when boring people talk.

 

They are known as pigeons blood rubies they are among the finest in the world.

 

ah, thank you. Well, those are the ones I want. Just like natural pearls are better than cultured ones.