Mini-Jet Found Near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole s final moments in detail as it gets gobbled up by a black hole.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Music Credit“Solar Eclipse” by Alexander Ryder Mcnair [ASCAP] and Harry Gregson Williams [BMI] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS] and Universal Production Music. || Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally. || Vertical VersionThis vertical version of the episode is for IGTV or Snapchat. The IGTV episode can be pulled into Instagram Stories and the regular Instagram feed.

Through a “trick” of light-bending gravity, the Hubble Space Telescope captured three different moments in the explosion of a very far-off supernova—all in one snapshot! Einstein first predicted this phenomenon, called gravitational lensing, in his theory of general relativity. In this case, the immense gravity of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 acted as a cosmic lens, bending and magnifying the light from the more distant supernova located behind the cluster. The warping also produced multiple images of the explosion over different time periods that all arrived at Hubble simultaneously. They show the unfolding supernova over the course of a week.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Music Sound“Distant Messages” by Anne Nikitin [PRS] via BBC Production Music [PRS] and Universal Production Music || Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally. || Vertical VersionThis vertical version of the episode is for IGTV or Snapchat. The IGTV episode can be pulled into Instagram Stories and the regular Instagram feed.

Galaxies are the visible foundation of the universe; each one a collection of stars, planets, gas, dust, and dark matter held together by gravity. Hubble’s observations give us insight into how galaxies form, grow, and evolve through time. Hubble’s namesake, astronomer Edwin Hubble, pioneered the study of galaxies based simply on their appearance. He divided galaxies into three basic forms: This “Field Guide” will quickly teach you those three basic forms, and some new ones that astronomers have added over the years! For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Additional Credits:Images of Edwin Hubble via Edwin P. Hubble Papers of the Huntington Library, San Mario, California.Music Credits: “Gravity Cruise - Underscore” by Jon Buster Cottam [PRS], and Samuel William John Walker [PRS] via Ninja Tune Production Music, and Universal Production Music || Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally. || Vertical VersionThis vertical version of the episode is for IGTV or Snapchat. The IGTV episode can be pulled into Instagram Stories and the regular Instagram feed.

Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe—tearing apart stars, consuming anything that comes too close, and holding light captive. Detailed evidence from NASA s Hubble Space Telescope, however, shows a black hole in a new light: fostering, rather than suppressing, star formation. Hubble imaging and spectroscopy of the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 clearly show a gas outflow stretching from the black hole to a bright star birth region like an umbilical cord, triggering the already dense cloud into forming clusters of stars. Astronomers have previously debated that a dwarf galaxy could have a black hole analogous to the supermassive black holes in larger galaxies. Further study of dwarf galaxies, which have remained small over cosmic time, may shed light on the question of how the first seeds of supermassive black holes formed and evolved over the history of the universe. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Music Credits: “Champagne Age” by Damon Bradley [BMI] via Network Production Music Publishing [BMI] and Universal Production Music || Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally. || Vertical VersionThis vertical version of the episode is for IGTV or Snapchat. The IGTV episode can be pulled into Instagram Stories and the regular Instagram feed.

This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a distant galaxy located in the constellation Fornax. It is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered.This object’s unusual shape is the result of gravitational lensing. Albert Einstein, in his general theory of relativity, first theorised that a large gravitational field could act as a lens. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Additional Acknowledgements and Credits:ESA/Hubble by Jamal Steven Pilgrim [ASCAP] via Open Note [ASCAP], and Universal Production Music. || Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally. || Vertical VersionThis vertical version is for IG Reels.

Astronomers on the hunt for an intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397, found something they weren’t expecting: a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there instead of one massive black hole.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Music Credits: by Chris Constantinou [PRS] and Paul Frazer [PRS] via Killer Tracks [BMI] and Universal Production Music.Visual Credits:Artist’s Impression of the Black Hole Concentration in NGC 6397Video credit: ESA/Hubble, N. BartmannCallout of the Black Hole Concentration in NGC 6397Video credit: ESA/Hubble, N. BartmannArtist Rendition of Gaia SpacecraftImage credit: ESA, C. Carreau || Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally. || Social Media VersionThis version of the video designed for Facebook, Twitter, or any other platform where you want to display a full-length version of the video. || Vertical VersionThis vertical version of the episode is for IGTV or Snapchat. The IGTV episode can be pulled into Instagram Stories and the regular Instagram feed.