Black Hole Pulse Animation

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

View the short video using these animations here.

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.

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).

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

This page was originally published on Thursday, December 15, 2011.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT.

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Tapes

This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:
  • Black Hole Heartbeat (ID: 2011124)
    Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:00AM
    Produced by - Robert Crippen (NASA)