Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell
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Credit: NASA/Bernard J. Kelly (Goddard and Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County), Chris Henze (Ames) and Tim Sandstrom (CSC Government Solutions LLC)
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Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab
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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC
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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman, J. Krolik (JHU) and S. Noble (RIT)
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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR)
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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR)
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Yellow structures near the black holes illustrate the strong curvature of space-time in the region. Orange ripples represent distortions of space-time caused by the rapidly orbiting masses. These distortions spread out and weaken, ultimately becoming gravitational waves (purple). The merger timescale depends on the masses of the black holes. For a system containing black holes with about 30 times the sun’s mass, similar to the one detected by LIGO in 2015, the orbital period at the start of the movie is just 65 milliseconds, with the black holes moving at about 15 percent the speed of light. Space-time distortions radiate away orbital energy and cause the binary to contract quickly. As the two black holes near each other, they merge into a single black hole that settles into its \"ringdown\" phase, where the final gravitational waves are emitted. For the 2015 LIGO detection, these events played out in little more than a quarter of a second. This simulation was performed on the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center. At maximum resolution this visualization is 8192x8192 pixels in size.Credit: NASA/Bernard J. 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Models like this may eventually help scientists pinpoint real examples of these powerful binary systems. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018Music: \"Games Show Sphere 01\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SMBH_Sim_Still_1.jpg (1920x1080) [333.8 KB] || SMBH_Sim_Still_1_print.jpg (1024x576) [138.8 KB] || SMBH_Sim_Still_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [69.3 KB] || SMBH_Sim_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [202.8 MB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_1080.webm (1920x1080) [17.4 MB] || SMBH_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || SMBH_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || ", "release_date": "2018-10-02T10:50:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:46:23.715715-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 400952, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013000/a013043/SMBH_Sim_Still_1.jpg", "filename": "SMBH_Sim_Still_1.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Gas glows brightly in this computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging. Models like this may eventually help scientists pinpoint real examples of these powerful binary systems. \rCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018Music: \"Games Show Sphere 01\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.\rComplete transcript available.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 12740, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12740/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Doomed Neutron Stars Create Blast of Light and Gravitational Waves", "description": "This animation captures phenomena observed over the course of nine days following the neutron star merger known as GW170817, detected on Aug. 17, 2017. They include gravitational waves (pale arcs), a near-light-speed jet that produced gamma rays (magenta), expanding debris from a kilonova that produced ultraviolet (violet), optical and infrared (blue-white to red) emission, and, once the jet directed toward us expanded into our view from Earth, X-rays (blue). 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Redder trails indicate particles more strongly affected by the black hole's gravitation and closer to its event horizon (black sphere at center, mostly hidden by trails). The ergosphere, where all matter and light must follow the black hole's spin, is shown in teal. 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The particles are shown as gray spheres attached to shaded trails representing their motion. Redder trails indicate particles more strongly affected by the black hole's gravitation and closer to its event horizon (black sphere at center, mostly hidden by trails). The ergosphere, where all matter and light must follow the black hole's spin, is shown in teal. Credit: NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio ", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 11206, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11206/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "NASA-led Study Explains How Black Holes Shine in Hard X-rays", "description": "A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light. By analyzing a supercomputer simulation of gas flowing into a black hole, the team finds they can reproduce a range of important X-ray features long observed in active black holes. Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., led the research.Black holes are the densest objects known. Stellar black holes form when massive stars run out of fuel and collapse, crushing up to 20 times the sun's mass into compact objects less than 75 miles (120 kilometers) wide. Gas falling toward a black hole initially orbits around it and then accumulates into a flattened disk. The gas stored in this disk gradually spirals inward and becomes greatly compressed and heated as it nears the center, ultimately reaching temperatures up to 20 million degrees Fahrenheit (12 million C), or some 2,000 times hotter than the sun's surface. It glows brightly in low-energy, or soft, X-rays.For more than 40 years, however, observations show that black holes also produce considerable amounts of \"hard\" X-rays, light with energy tens to hundreds of times greater than soft X-rays. This higher-energy light implies the presence of correspondingly hotter gas, with temperatures reaching billions of degrees. The new study involves a detailed computer simulation that simultaneously tracked the fluid, electrical and magnetic properties of the gas while also taking into account Einstein's theory of relativity. Using this data, the scientists developed tools to track how X-rays were emitted, absorbed, and scattered in and around the disk. The study demonstrates for the first time a direct connection between magnetic turbulence in the disk, the formation of a billion-degree corona above and below the disk, and the production of hard X-rays around an actively \"feeding\" black hole.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "release_date": "2013-06-14T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:04.530319-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 468347, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011206/Black_Hole_Sim_Still.png", "filename": "Black_Hole_Sim_Still.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This animation of supercomputer data takes you to the inner zone of the accretion disk of a stellar-mass black hole. Gas heated to 20 million degrees F as it spirals toward the black hole glows in low-energy, or soft, X-rays. Just before the gas plunges to the center, its orbital motion is approaching the speed of light. X-rays up to hundreds of times more powerful (\"harder\") than those in the disk arise from the corona, a region of tenuous and much hotter gas around the disk. Coronal temperatures reach billions of degrees. The event horizon is the boundary where all trajectories, including those of light, must go inward. Nothing, not even light, can pass outward across the event horizon and escape the black hole.Music: \"Lost in Space\" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of artist.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 11110, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11110/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "X-ray Nova Flaring Black Hole animation", "description": "An X-ray nova is a short-lived X-ray source that appears suddenly, reaches its emission peak in a few days and then fades out over a period of months. The outburst arises when a torrent of stored gas suddenly rushes toward one of the most compact objects known, either a neutron star or a black hole. || ", "release_date": "2012-10-05T14:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:43.076403-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 471762, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011110/BlackHole_01170.jpg", "filename": "BlackHole_01170.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Artist's interpretation of Swift J1745-26, a newly discovered black hole with a flaring accretion disk.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } ], "sources": [], "products": [], "newer_versions": [], "older_versions": [], "alternate_versions": [] }