Merging Black Holes
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- Visualizations by:
- Dana Berry
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A black hole is a massive object whose gravitational field is so intense that no light (electromagnetic radiation) can escape it. When two orbiting black holes merge, a massive amount of energy is released in the form of jets. Meanwhile, the movement of these massive bodies disturbs the fabric of space-time around them, sending ripples of gravitational waves radiating outward. These waves are predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, but have yet to be directly detected.
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NASA
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Animator
- Dana Berry (Skyworks Digital) [Lead]
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Writer
- Michael McClare (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole
Read moreThe Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a quasar named 3C 186 that is offset from the center of its galaxy. Astronomers hypothesize that this supermassive black hole was jettisoned from the center of its galaxy by the recoil from gravitational waves produced by the merging of two supermassive black holes. Read the press release here - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/feature/gravitational-wave-kicks-monster-black-hole-out-of-galactic-coreDownload the Hubble images here - http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2017-12Read the science paper here - http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hvi/uploads/science_paper/file_attachment/231/3c186.pdf ||
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