Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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\"Maelstrom Dream,\" Lucie Rose\r
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The camera approaches the black hole, making almost two trips around before crossing the event horizon. As the camera loops around, the screen is black toward the black hole’s location at the bottom. The orange disk appears to stretch and arc into a thin line that breaks off into a loop that passes overhead several times. Once inside the event horizon, the screen becomes increasingly black. The orange disk makes one more loop before becoming a thin ribbon across the top. The starry sky crams together just above the ribbon. 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This data-driven visualization shows you gravity’s warped effects.\r\n\r\nThe destination: a supermassive black hole with 4.3 million times the mass of our Sun, like the one at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. You’ll loop around the event horizon, the boundary where the black hole's escape velocity equals the speed of light, the speed limit of the universe. Anything that crosses will never escape.\r\n\r\nA flat, swirling cloud of hot, glowing gas surrounds the black hole and is your guide on the trip. You’ll also see glowing structures called photon rings, which form closer to the black hole from light that has orbited it once or more. A backdrop of the starry sky as seen from Earth completes the scene.\r\n\r\nAs you loop around the black hole, things appear to twist and contort in the black hole's strong gravity. Hold on tight! One false step and you could become a black hole’s next meal.\r\n\r\nFollow our account for more black hole updates throughout the week!\r\n\r\nCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell\r\n\r\nMusic: \"Beautiful Awesome,\" David Husband and James William Banbury [PRS], Universal Production Music\r\n\r\nFind more information and content [here](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14576/){target=_blank}.\r\n\r\nComplete transcript available.", "items": [ { "id": 462020, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153274, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/BHW2024_FlyBy_Reel.mp4", "filename": "BHW2024_FlyBy_Reel.mp4", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "A black hole with a glowing orange disk of material sits near the center of a starry background. Light from the disk is distorted by the black hole’s strong gravity with the far side of the disk visible above and below it. The camera approaches the black hole, taking two trips around it. As the camera loops around, the orange disk appears to stretch and arc into a thin line that breaks off into a loop that passes overhead with each half-loop. Finally, the camera pulls away, focusing on the starry backdrop.", "width": 1080, "height": 1920, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 462021, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153275, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/BHW2024_FlyBy_Reel_Captions.en_US.srt", "filename": "BHW2024_FlyBy_Reel_Captions.en_US.srt", "media_type": "Captions", "alt_text": "", "label": "English", "language_code": "en-US" } }, { "id": 462030, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153284, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/Fly-By Still.jpg", "filename": "Fly-By Still.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 1080, "height": 1920, "pixels": 2073600 } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 377610, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14793/#media_group_377610", "widget": "Video player", "title": "M87 Zoom", "caption": "", "description": "In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope revealed the shadow of a supermassive black hole in the elliptical galaxy M87—the first time such an image had been captured. Astronomers have studied M87 for centuries, in part due to a spectacular jet of high-energy material streaming from its center. This video zooms in on M87 with visible, X-ray, and radio images, ending on the historic image from 2019.\r\n\r\nVideo credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center\r\n\r\nMusic: \"Tension Underlying\" from Universal Production Music\r\n\r\nImage credits: NOAO/AURA/NSF; Robert Lupton and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; NASA and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); NASA/CXC/Villanova/J. Neilsen; F. Owen, NRAO, with J. Biretta, STScI; Y.Y. Kovalev, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy; NRAO/R. Craig Walker et al. (2016); EHT Collaboration\r\n\r\nFind more information and content [here](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13239/){target=_blank}.\r\n\r\nComplete transcript available.", "items": [ { "id": 462022, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153276, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/M87_zoom_final_text_Vertical_Trim_Reel.mp4", "filename": "M87_zoom_final_text_Vertical_Trim_Reel.mp4", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "", "width": 1080, "height": 1920, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 462031, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153285, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/M87 Reel Still.jpg", "filename": "M87 Reel Still.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 1080, "height": 1920, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 470585, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1155284, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/M87ZoomReel.en_US.srt", "filename": "M87ZoomReel.en_US.srt", "media_type": "Captions", "alt_text": "", "label": "English", "language_code": "en-US" } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 377611, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14793/#media_group_377611", "widget": "Video player", "title": "Binary Black Hole Visualization", "caption": "", "description": "The dancing arcs in this visualization reveal the twisted space-time surrounding a pair of supersized black holes, each with its own disk of hot gas.\r\n\r\nWhen viewed from the top, there’s nothing special about how the disks appear. However, looking at the system edge-on, each black hole takes on a warped appearance. As one passes in front of the other, the gravity of the foreground black hole transforms its partner into rapidly changing arcs.\r\n\r\nVisualizations like this help scientists picture the consequences of extreme gravity’s funhouse mirror.\r\n\r\nCredit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell\r\n\r\nMusic: “Teapot Waltz,” Benjamin James Parsons [PRS], Universal Production Music\r\n\r\nFind more information and content [here](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13831/){target=_blank}.\r\n\r\nComplete transcript available.", "items": [ { "id": 462023, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153277, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/Binary_BlackHole_Lensing_Reel.mp4", "filename": "Binary_BlackHole_Lensing_Reel.mp4", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "00:00-00:03 - Text on screen reads, “Pairs of orbiting supermassive black holes …” On the right is a black hole which is not visible itself, but is surrounded by a disk of material in shades of red. The front part of the disk is flat, but the light from the top and bottom of the accretion disk behind that black hole is distorted around the black hole, making \"bumps” above and below it. \r\n\r\n00:03-00:08 - A smaller black hole with a similarly distorted accretion disk in shades of blue enters from the left. As they orbit, light from the more distant black hole’s accretion disk appears to contort above and below its companion in the foreground. Text on screen reads, “... Bend the light coming from the one behind.” \r\n\r\n00:08-00:28 - The scene freezes with the smaller (blue) black hole in front. The red accretion disk appears as arcs, full circles, and thin wispy lines around the blue one. With the scene frozen, the camera zooms into various parts of the disk where the arcs cross and small images of the blue disk are visible next to the red twists. \r\n\r\n00:28-00:47 - The motion resumes with the black holes orbiting and the twisted light show continuing. \r\n\r\nThe video is watermarked with “Visualization” throughout.", "width": 1080, "height": 1920, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 462024, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153278, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/Binary_BlackHole_Lensing_Reel_Captions.en_US.srt", "filename": "Binary_BlackHole_Lensing_Reel_Captions.en_US.srt", "media_type": "Captions", "alt_text": "", "label": "English", "language_code": "en-US" } }, { "id": 462025, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153279, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/Binary_BlackHole_Lensing_Reel_ProRes.mov", "filename": "Binary_BlackHole_Lensing_Reel_ProRes.mov", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "00:00-00:03 - Text on screen reads, “Pairs of orbiting supermassive black holes …” On the right is a black hole which is not visible itself, but is surrounded by a disk of material in shades of red. The front part of the disk is flat, but the light from the top and bottom of the accretion disk behind that black hole is distorted around the black hole, making \"bumps” above and below it. \r\n\r\n00:03-00:08 - A smaller black hole with a similarly distorted accretion disk in shades of blue enters from the left. As they orbit, light from the more distant black hole’s accretion disk appears to contort above and below its companion in the foreground. Text on screen reads, “... Bend the light coming from the one behind.” \r\n\r\n00:08-00:28 - The scene freezes with the smaller (blue) black hole in front. The red accretion disk appears as arcs, full circles, and thin wispy lines around the blue one. With the scene frozen, the camera zooms into various parts of the disk where the arcs cross and small images of the blue disk are visible next to the red twists. \r\n\r\n00:28-00:47 - The motion resumes with the black holes orbiting and the twisted light show continuing. \r\n\r\nThe video is watermarked with “Visualization” throughout.", "width": 1080, "height": 1920, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 462032, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153286, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/Binary Black Hole Still.jpg", "filename": "Binary Black Hole Still.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 1080, "height": 1920, "pixels": 2073600 } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 377612, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14793/#media_group_377612", "widget": "Video player", "title": "Black Hole Binary X-ray Emission", "caption": "", "description": "Simulation of the light emitted by a supermassive black hole binary system where the surrounding gas is optically thin (transparent). Viewed from 0 degrees inclination, or directly above the plane of the disk. 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Now each black hole moves in front of the other from top to bottom.\r\n0:31 The image pauses, highlighting the warped shape of one of the black holes as it interacts with the other’s gravity.\r\n0:37 The view rotates to a third angle, and the gas around the black holes squishes together as they continue to rotate.\r\n0:49 The video returns to the original, top-down view of the black holes orbiting.", "width": 1080, "height": 1920, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 470586, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1155285, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014793/BHBinary.en_US.srt", "filename": "BHBinary.en_US.srt", "media_type": "Captions", "alt_text": "", "label": "English", "language_code": "en-US" } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 377613, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14793/#media_group_377613", "widget": "Video player", "title": "Spinning Black Hole", "caption": "", "description": "When a black hole spins, it can drag the very fabric of space around with it. 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Complete transcript available.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab\r\n\r\nFind main content [here](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14574/){target=_blank}.", "items": [ { "id": 425972, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1091674, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014500/a014574/BHW_2024_Teaser_Still.jpg", "filename": "BHW_2024_Teaser_Still.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A mesmerizing white spiral swirls on an orange background with shadows around the edges. As it slowly fills more of the screen, black text reading “meet me at the event horizon” appears and then is pulled into the center of the spiral. 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The event horizon isn’t a solid surface like Earth’s or even the Sun’s. It's the boundary where the black hole's escape velocity equals the speed of light, the speed limit of the universe. Once matter crosses the event horizon, it will never escape the black hole.Download the desktop version here.Download the smartphone version here.Download the square version here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } }, { "id": 14585, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14585/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Beyond the Brink: Tracking a Simulated Plunge into a Black Hole", "description": "In this all-sky view, the camera approaches a supermassive black hole weighing 4.3 million Suns. It is about 70 million miles (113 million kilometers) from the black hole’s event horizon, the boundary of no return. It’s moving inward at 19% the speed of light — nearly 127 million mph (205 million kph). A flat, swirling cloud of hot, glowing gas called an accretion disk surrounds the black hole and serves as a visual reference during the fall, as do glowing structures called photon rings, which form closer to the black hole from light that has orbited it one or more times. A backdrop of the starry sky completes the scene.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell || 1_BH_Viz_20_rg_019c.jpg (8192x4096) [6.1 MB] || ", "release_date": "2024-05-06T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-05-08T14:04:55.106961-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1092002, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014500/a014585/7_BH_Viz_012rg_0992c_print.jpg", "filename": "7_BH_Viz_012rg_0992c_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This detail shows a view 10 degrees across — about the width of a fist at arm’s length — in the direction of travel at 99.2% the speed of light (665 million mph, 1.07 billion kph) relative to the background stars. Much of the sky fits within this small view. The camera is 7 million miles (12 million kilometers below the event horizon.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 13043, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13043/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes", "description": "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. 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_1080.webm (1920x1080) [17.4 MB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [202.8 MB] || SMBH_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || SMBH_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || ", "release_date": "2018-10-02T10:50:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-08-14T22:44:41.842504-04:00", "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": 13086, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13086/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Supermassive Black Hole Binary Simulation Visualizations in 4k", "description": "Simulation of the light emitted by a supermassive black hole binary system where the surrounding gas is optically thin (transparent). Viewed from 0 degrees inclination, or directly above the plane of the disk. The emitted light represents all wavelengths.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018 || image-000-_000150_print.jpg (1024x576) [33.9 KB] || image-000-_000150.png (3840x2160) [5.1 MB] || 0Degrees (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || SMBH_Sim_Thin0_4kFull.mp4 (3840x2160) [15.0 MB] || SMBH_Sim_Thin0_4kFull.webm (3840x2160) [2.2 MB] || SMBH_Sim_Thin0_4kFull.mov (3840x2160) [427.6 MB] || ", "release_date": "2018-10-02T10:50:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:46:23.943583-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 399799, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013000/a013086/image-072-_000150_print.jpg", "filename": "image-072-_000150_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Simulation of the light emitted by a supermassive black hole binary system where the surrounding gas is optically thin (transparent). Viewed from 72 degrees inclination, or partially angled above the plane of the disk. The emitted light represents all wavelengths.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 10141, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10141/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Matter Rides a Wave Around a Black Hole", "description": "A black hole is a massive object whose gravitational field is so intense that no light (electromagnetic radiation) can escape it. Researchers have seen evidence of hot iron gas riding upon waves of spacetime around black holes. This animation paints an intriguing image of how a spinning black hole can drag the very fabric of space around with it. || ", "release_date": "2007-07-03T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:40.186820-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 508279, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010100/a010141/BlackHole3_698.jpg", "filename": "BlackHole3_698.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This animation zooms into a black hole and accretion disk showing how the spinning black hole drags spacetime around with it. ", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } ], "products": [], "newer_versions": [], "older_versions": [], "alternate_versions": [] }