Universe  ID: 10876

Black Hole Pulse Animation

Released on December 15, 2011
Animations associated with the RXTE Black Hole 'Heartbeat' release.

View the short video using these animations here.

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Animation showing the pulsing behavior of the black hole in system IGR J17091-3624. This animation shows the pulsing at its real-time speed of 5 seconds per cycle.
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Animation showing an "EKG" view of the X-ray brightness of black hole systems GRS 1915+105 (with a period of 40 seconds), and IGR J17091-3624 (with a period of 5 seconds).
 

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RXTE Detects 'Heartbeat' Of Smallest Black Hole Candidate

Credits

Walt Feimer (HTSI): Lead Animator
Tyler Chase (UMBC): Animator
Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Producer
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

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https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10876

Mission:
RXTE

This item is part of this series:
Astrophysics Animations

Goddard TV Tape:
G2011-124 -- Black Hole Heartbeat

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Satellite
SVS >> X-ray
SVS >> Black Hole
SVS >> Astrophysics
SVS >> Space
SVS >> Binary Star
SVS >> Star
SVS >> Space Science
SVS >> RXTE
NASA Science >> Universe