Black Holes and Their Companions Close Up

  • Released Monday, May 2, 2022

These visualizations show 22 X-ray binaries in our Milky Way galaxy and its nearest neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud, that host confirmed stellar-mass black holes.



The movies form the basis of NASA’s Black Hole Orrery. Please refer to that page for additional details.



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This page was originally published on Monday, May 2, 2022.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 11:44 AM EDT.