{ "id": 40368, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-holes/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Black Holes", "description": "This gallery gathers together visualizations and narrated videos about black holes. A black hole is a celestial object whose gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape it. Astronomers observe two main types of black holes. Stellar-mass black holes contain three to dozens of times the mass of our Sun. They form when the cores of very massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight, compressing large amounts of matter into a tiny space. Supermassive black holes, with masses up to billions of times the Sun’s, can be found at the centers of most big galaxies. Although a black hole does not emit light, matter falling toward it collects in a hot, glowing accretion disk that astronomers can detect.", "release_date": "2019-04-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-11-10T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1140714, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014753/1ES1927_PanSTARRS_1080_circ_searchweb.png", "filename": "1ES1927_PanSTARRS_1080_circ_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This gallery gathers together visualizations and narrated videos about black holes. A black hole is a celestial object whose gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape it. Astronomers observe two main types of black holes. Stellar-mass black holes contain three to dozens of times the mass of our Sun. They form when the cores of very massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight, compressing large amounts of matter into a tiny space. Supermassive black holes, with masses up to billions of times the Sun’s, can be found at the centers of most big galaxies. Although a black hole does not emit light, matter falling toward it collects in a hot, glowing accretion disk that astronomers can detect.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 }, "media_groups": [ { "id": 371339, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-holes/#media_group_371339", "widget": "Basic text (large)", "title": "Overview", "caption": "", "description": "This gallery gathers together visualizations and narrated videos about black holes. A black hole is a celestial object whose gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape it. Astronomers observe two main types of black holes. Stellar-mass black holes contain three to dozens of times the mass of our Sun. They form when the cores of very massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight, compressing large amounts of matter into a tiny space. Supermassive black holes, with masses up to billions of times the Sun’s, can be found at the centers of most big galaxies. Although a black hole does not emit light, matter falling toward it collects in a hot, glowing accretion disk that astronomers can detect.", "items": [], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 371340, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-holes/#media_group_371340", "widget": "Tile gallery", "title": "Most Recent Black Hole Stories", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 497333, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14905, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14905/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Black Hole Environments, Explained", "description": "If light can’t escape black holes, how do we know where they are? The regions around them tell an incredible story. From blazing coronas and swirling accretion disks to powerful jets that stretch millions of miles, these extreme environments reveal black holes' secrets and how these mysterious objects shape the universe.Join host Sophia Roberts as she talks with researchers Jenna Cann and Cecilia Chirenti at NASA Goddard about how scientists study these mysterious structures, the challenges of observing the unseeable, and the discoveries that continue to change our understanding of black holes.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic credits from Universal Production Music:\"Breaking the Barrier,\" David Bertrand Holland\"Dust Spirals,\" Alexandre Prodhomme\"Miniature Universe,\" Geoffrey Wilkinson\"Urban Decay,\" Sarah Natasha Penelope Warne\"Solar Plexus,\" Brandon Seliga\"Polygraph,\" Eric Chevalier\"The Mischief Makers,\" Joaquim Badia\"Maelstrom Dream,\" Lucie Rose\"The Truth Will Out,\" Chris Dony and Beth Perry || 14905_-_BHE_Thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [947.8 KB] || 14905_-_Black_Hole_Environments_Explained_Captions.en_US.srt [15.7 KB] || 14905_-_Black_Hole_Environments_Explained_Captions.en_US.vtt [14.8 KB] || FINAL_-_14905_-_Black_Hole_Environments_Explained_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || FINAL_-_14905_Black_Hole_Enviroments_Explained_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [9.2 GB] || FINAL_-_14905_-_Black_Hole_Environments_Explained_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [39.3 GB] || ", "release_date": "2025-11-28T09:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-12-01T11:04:09.238331-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1158631, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014900/a014905/14905_-_BlackHole_Environments_Animations_Labeled.00001_print.jpg", "filename": "14905_-_BlackHole_Environments_Animations_Labeled.00001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This artist’s concept shows the different structures that compose an active galactic nucleus. It starts with a full view and then points out the photon ring, corona, jet, accretion disk, and dusty torus before ending on the full view.Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Conceptual Image Lab", "width": 1024, "height": 561, "pixels": 574464 } } }, { "id": 446858, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14753, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14753/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Astronomers Track Jet Launch, Fluctuating X-Rays from Brink of Active Black Hole", "description": "Active galaxy 1ES 1927+654, circled, has exhibited extraordinary changes since 2018, when a major outburst occurred in visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray light. The galaxy harbors a central black hole weighing about 1.4 million solar masses and is located 270 million light-years away.Credit: Pan-STARRSUnannotated versions available.Image description: On a mottled black background, soft circles ranging in color from blue-white to orange represent stars in our own galaxy. At center, to the right of a chain of three bluish stars, lies a softer white circle set within a grayish ellipse whose longest dimension is oriented vertically. 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And we'll answer questions from curious listeners, including, \"What would happen if a black hole ate nothing but magnetized material?\" || ", "release_date": "2024-12-17T09:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-07-23T08:36:29.028026-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1140075, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014737/CU_BH_Flagship_Thumbnail6.jpg", "filename": "CU_BH_Flagship_Thumbnail6.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Watch this video episode of the Curious Universe podcast.Music: \"Curiosity\" by SYSTEM Sounds [Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida] Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 446860, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14719, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14719/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes", "description": "Watch as a gas cloud encounters two supermassive black holes. The complex interplay of gravitational and frictional forces causes the cloud to condense and heat. Some of the gas is ejected from the system with each orbit of the black holes.Credit: F. Goicovic et al. 2016Music: \"Forgotten Fortunes,\" Magnum Opus [ASCAP] , Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || Sim_Video_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [744.6 KB] || Sim_Video_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [37.6 KB] || Sim_Video_Still_thm.png (80x40) [3.4 KB] || BH_Binary_TD_Sim_1080_Final.mp4 (1920x1080) [38.5 MB] || BH_Binary_TD_Sim_4k_Final.mp4 (3840x2160) [45.5 MB] || BH_Binary_TD_Sim_4k_Final_best.mp4 (3840x2160) [67.9 MB] || 14719_BinaryBHTDE_Captions.en_US.srt [57 bytes] || 14719_BinaryBHTDE_Captions.en_US.vtt [67 bytes] || BH_Binary_TD_Sim_4k_Final_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [1.5 GB] || ", "release_date": "2024-11-13T09:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2024-11-12T14:08:08.171699-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1138973, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014719/Sim_Video_Still_searchweb.png", "filename": "Sim_Video_Still_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Watch as a gas cloud encounters two supermassive black holes. The complex interplay of gravitational and frictional forces causes the cloud to condense and heat. Some of the gas is ejected from the system with each orbit of the black holes.Credit: F. Goicovic et al. 2016Music: \"Forgotten Fortunes,\" Magnum Opus [ASCAP] , Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 426836, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14524, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14524/", "page_type": "Infographic", "title": "Primordial Black Holes", "description": "This artist's concept takes a fanciful approach to imagining small primordial black holes. 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Watch this video to see how they compare to each other and to our solar system. The black holes shown, which range from 100,000 to more than 60 billion times our Sun’s mass, are scaled according to the sizes of their shadows – a circular zone about twice the size of their event horizons. Only one of these colossal objects resides in our own galaxy, and it lies 26,000 light-years away. Smaller black holes are shown in bluish colors because their gas is expected to be hotter than that orbiting larger ones. Scientists think all of these objects shine most intensely in ultraviolet light. 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Watch this video to see how they compare to each other and to our solar system. The black holes shown, which range from 100,000 to more than 60 billion times our Sun’s mass, are scaled according to the sizes of their shadows – a circular zone about twice the size of their event horizons. Only one of these colossal objects resides in our own galaxy, and it lies 26,000 light-years away. Smaller black holes are shown in bluish colors because their gas is expected to be hotter than that orbiting larger ones. Scientists think all of these objects shine most intensely in ultraviolet light. 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In most of these systems, a stream of matter from the star forms an accretion disk around the black hole. In others, like the famous system called Cygnus X-1, the star produces a hefty outflow that is partly swept up by the black hole’s gravity to form the disk. The accretion disks use a different color scheme because they sport even higher temperatures than the stars. The largest disk shown, belonging to a binary called GRS 1915, spans a distance greater than that separating Mercury from our Sun. The black holes themselves are shown larger than in reality using spheres scaled to reflect their masses.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Scientific Visualization StudioMusic: \"Event Horizon\" from Gravity. 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This visualization presents 22 X-ray binary systems that host confirmed black holes at the same scale, with their orbits sped up by about 22,000 times. The view of each system reflects how we see it from Earth. Star colors ranging from blue-white to reddish represent temperatures from 5 times hotter to 45% cooler than our Sun. In most of these systems, a stream of matter from the star forms an accretion disk around the black hole. In others, like the famous system called Cygnus X-1, the star produces a hefty outflow that is partly swept up by the black hole’s gravity to form the disk. The accretion disks use a different color scheme because they sport even higher temperatures than the stars. The largest disk shown, belonging to a binary called GRS 1915, spans a distance greater than that separating Mercury from our Sun. The black holes themselves are shown larger than in reality using spheres scaled to reflect their masses.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Scientific Visualization StudioMusic: \"Event Horizon\" from Gravity. Written and produced by Lars LeonhardWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 3840, "height": 2160, "pixels": 8294400 } } }, { "id": 410876, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40436, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-hole-week/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Black Hole Week", "description": "This gallery brings together resources related to NASA’s Black Hole Week — videos, social media products, news stories, still images, and assets. This week is a celebration of celestial objects with gravity so intense that even light cannot escape them. Our goal is that no matter where people turn that week they will run into a black hole. 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(Figuratively, of course — we don’t want anyone falling in!)", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 410877, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 13834, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13834/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "NASA's Field Guide to Black Holes", "description": "Thinking about doing some black hole watching the next time you’re on an intergalactic vacation, but you’re not quite sure where to start? Well, look no further! This series of videos shows you everything you need to know. With topics ranging from basic black holes, to fancy black holes, to giant black holes and their companions, you’ll be more than ready for your next adventure.In addition to the videos, you can also download a printable guide that has even more information.Note: While these videos can be shared in their entirety without permission, their music has been licensed and may not be excised or remixed in other products. || ", "release_date": "2021-04-12T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:44:13.659174-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 379095, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013800/a013834/ep2_still.jpg", "filename": "ep2_still.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Episode 2 - Fancy Black HolesOnce you’ve gotten the hang of basic black holes, you might want to search for some fancier ones. That’s great! But, before you do, refer to this convenient chapter to learn just how fancy some black holes can be.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Oh Really\" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410878, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4807, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4807/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "M87: Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole", "description": "Beginning with the Event Horizon Telescope's now iconic image of M87, this video takes viewers on a journey through the data from several telescopes. 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The video shows data across many factors of 10 in scale, both of wavelengths of light and physical size. ", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 410879, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 13831, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13831/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "NASA Visualization Probes the Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes", "description": "Explore how the extreme gravity of two orbiting supermassive black holes distorts our view. In this visualization, disks of bright, hot, churning gas encircle both black holes, shown in red and blue to better track the light source. The red disk orbits the larger black hole, which weighs 200 million times the mass of our Sun, while its smaller blue companion weighs half as much. Zooming into each black hole reveals multiple, increasingly warped images of its partner. Watch to learn more. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. PowellMusic: \"Gravitational Field\" from Orbit. 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The black hole’s extreme gravitational field redirects and distorts light coming from different parts of the disk, but exactly what we see depends on our viewing angle. The greatest distortion occurs when viewing the system nearly edgewise. As our viewpoint rotates around the black hole, we see different parts of the fast-moving gas in the accretion disk moving directly toward us. Due to a phenomenon called \"relativistic Doppler beaming,\" gas in the disk that's moving toward us makes that side of the disk appear brighter, the opposite side darker. This effect disappears when we're directly above or below the disk because, from that angle, none of the gas is moving directly toward us.When our viewpoint passes beneath the disk, it looks like the gas is moving in the opposite direction. This is no different that viewing a clock from behind, which would make it look like the hands are moving counter-clockwise.CORRECTION: In earlier versions of the 360-degree movies on this page, these important effects were not apparent. This was due to a minor mistake in orienting the camera relative to the disk. The fact that it was not initially discovered by the NASA scientist who made the movie reflects just how bizarre and counter-intuitive black holes can be! 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This is no different that viewing a clock from behind, which would make it look like the hands are moving counter-clockwise.CORRECTION: In earlier versions of the 360-degree movies on this page, these important effects were not apparent. This was due to a minor mistake in orienting the camera relative to the disk. The fact that it was not initially discovered by the NASA scientist who made the movie reflects just how bizarre and counter-intuitive black holes can be! Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman", "width": 1024, "height": 1024, "pixels": 1048576 } } }, { "id": 410883, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 13322, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13322/", "page_type": "Animation", "title": "NASA's Guide To Black Hole Safety", "description": "Have you ever thought about visiting a black hole? We sure hope not. However, if you're absolutely convinced that a black hole is your ideal vacation spot, watch this video before you blast off to learn more about them and (more importantly) how to stay safe.You can also download a handy safety brochure, watch short clips to learn different things about black holes, and even get some short glimpses into the lives of black holes and the explorers that want to visit them. || ", "release_date": "2019-09-23T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:45:38.256787-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 392476, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013300/a013322/black_hole_week_01_what_is_a_black_hole_thumb_print.jpg", "filename": "black_hole_week_01_what_is_a_black_hole_thumb_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Black Hole 101: What Is a Black Hole?Want to know more about black holes, but don't have a lot of time? 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Filaments containing much of the star's mass fall toward the black hole. Eventually these gaseous filaments merge into a smooth, hot disk glowing brightly in X-rays. As the disk forms, its central region heats up tremendously, which drives a flow of material, called a wind, away from the disk. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410899, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12265, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12265/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "X-ray Echoes Map a 'Killer' Black Hole", "description": "NASA Goddard astronomer Erin Kara discusses the discovery of X-ray echoes from Swift J1644+57, a black hole that shattered a passing star. X-rays produced by flares near this million-solar-mass black hole bounced off the nascent accretion disk and revealed its structure. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"The Orion Arm\" and \"Particle Acceleration\" both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || TD_Still.png (1920x1080) [11.0 MB] || TD_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [109.7 KB] || TD_Still_searchweb.png (180x320) [91.6 KB] || TD_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.8 GB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [1.6 GB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2-HD_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [443.2 MB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2-Apple_Devices_Best.m4v (1920x1080) [295.2 MB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [150.6 MB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2-Apple_HD_Compatible.m4v (960x540) [118.9 MB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [150.7 MB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2-Apple_HD_Compatible.webm (960x540) [31.7 MB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [5.3 KB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [5.3 KB] || 12265_BH_Echoes_FINAL2_lowres.mp4 (480x272) [39.9 MB] || ", "release_date": "2016-06-22T13:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:48:31.801963-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 423280, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012200/a012265/TD_Still.png", "filename": "TD_Still.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "NASA Goddard astronomer Erin Kara discusses the discovery of X-ray echoes from Swift J1644+57, a black hole that shattered a passing star. X-rays produced by flares near this million-solar-mass black hole bounced off the nascent accretion disk and revealed its structure. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"The Orion Arm\" and \"Particle Acceleration\" both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410900, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11625, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11625/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "NASA's RXTE Satellite Catches the Beat of a Midsize Black Hole", "description": "Astronomers from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare breed of black hole in archival data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite. The signals provide compelling evidence that the object, known as M82 X-1, is one of only a few midsize black holes known.Dying stars form modest black holes measuring up to around 25 times the mass of our sun. At the opposite extreme, most large galaxies contain a supermassive black hole with a mass tens of thousands of times greater. Just as drivers traveling a highway packed with compact cars and monster trucks might start looking for sedans, astronomers are searching for a middle range of the black hole population and wondering why they see so few.M82 X-1 is the brightest X-ray source in Messier 82, a galaxy located about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. While astronomers have suspected the object of being a midsize, or intermediate-mass, black hole for at least a decade, estimates have varied from 20 to 1,000 solar masses, preventing a definitive classification.Working with Mushotzky and Strohmayer, UMCP graduate student Dheeraj Pasham sifted through about 800 RXTE observations of M82 in a search for specific types of brightness changes that would help pin down the mass of the X-ray source.As gas streams toward the black hole it piles up into a disk around it. Friction within the disk heats the gas to millions of degrees, which is hot enough to emit X-rays. Cyclical intensity variations in these X-rays reflect processes occurring within the disk.Scientists think the most rapid changes occur near the inner edge of the disk on the brink of the black hole's event horizon, the point beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape. With such close proximity to the black hole, the effects of Einstein's general relativity come into play, resulting in X-ray variations that repeat at nearly regular intervals.Astronomers call these signals quasi-periodic oscillations, or QPOs, and have shown that for black holes produced by stars, their frequencies scale up or down depending on the size of the black hole.When astronomers study X-ray fluctuations from many stellar-mass black holes, they see both slow and fast QPOs, but the fast ones often come in pairs with a specific 3:2 rhythmic relationship. For every three flashes from one member of the QPO pair, its partner flashes twice.The combined presence of slow QPOs and a faster pair in a 3:2 rhythm effectively sets a standard scale that gives scientists a powerful tool for establishing the masses of stellar black holes.A decade ago, Strohmayer and Mushotzky showed the presence of slow QPO signals from M82 X-1. In order to apply the tried-and-true relationship used for stellar-mass black holes, the researchers needed to identify a pair of steady fluctuations exhibiting the same 3:2 beat in RXTE observations. By analyzing six years of data, they located X-ray variations that reliably repeated about 3.3 and 5.1 times each second, just the 3:2 relationship they needed.This allowed them to calculate that M82 X-1 weighs about 400 solar masses — the most accurate determination to date for this object and one that clearly places it in the category of intermediate-mass black holes.Read the paper at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13710.html.Read the press release at http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/index.html. || ", "release_date": "2014-08-18T15:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:50:39.544616-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 452662, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011600/a011625/RXTE_Midsize_BH_Still.jpg", "filename": "RXTE_Midsize_BH_Still.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.Explore M82 X-1 and learn more about how astronomers used X-ray fluctuations to determine its status as an intermediate-mass black hole.\r\rCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center\r", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410901, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11894, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11894/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Turning Black Holes into Dark Matter Labs", "description": "This video introduces a new computer simulation exploring the connection between two of the most elusive phenomena in the universe, black holes and dark matter. In the visualization, dark matter particles are 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. Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterFor complete transcript, click here. || DMBH_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [555.7 KB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [25.0 MB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.1 GB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_MPEG4_1920X1080_2997.mp4 (1920x1080) [135.4 MB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_H264_Best_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.1 GB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [356.2 MB] || G2015-040_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_appletv.m4v (960x540) [93.0 MB] || G2015-040_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [103.5 MB] || G2015-040_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [92.9 MB] || G2015-040_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [37.6 MB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_SRT_Captions.en_us.en_US.srt [4.2 KB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_SRT_Captions.en_us.en_US.vtt [4.2 KB] || G2015-040_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [20.1 MB] || ", "release_date": "2015-06-23T14:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:49:39.865828-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 442802, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011800/a011894/DMBH_layered.jpg", "filename": "DMBH_layered.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": " The image layers multiple frames from the visualization to increase the number of dark matter particles. 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": 410902, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11530, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11530/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole", "description": "This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between eight and 30 times the sun's mass explodes as a supernova. Neutron stars pack about 1.5 times the mass of the sun — equivalent to about half a million Earths — into a ball just 12 miles (20 km) across. As the simulation begins, we view an unequally matched pair of neutron stars weighing 1.4 and 1.7 solar masses. They are separated by only about 11 miles, slightly less distance than their own diameters. Redder colors show regions of progressively lower density. As the stars spiral toward each other, intense tides begin to deform them, possibly cracking their crusts. Neutron stars possess incredible density, but their surfaces are comparatively thin, with densities about a million times greater than gold. Their interiors crush matter to a much greater degree densities rise by 100 million times in their centers. To begin to imagine such mind-boggling densities, consider that a cubic centimeter of neutron star matter outweighs Mount Everest. By 7 milliseconds, tidal forces overwhelm and shatter the lesser star. Its superdense contents erupt into the system and curl a spiral arm of incredibly hot material. At 13 milliseconds, the more massive star has accumulated too much mass to support it against gravity and collapses, and a new black hole is born. The black hole's event horizon — its point of no return — is shown by the gray sphere. While most of the matter from both neutron stars will fall into the black hole, some of the less dense, faster moving matter manages to orbit around it, quickly forming a large and rapidly rotating torus. This torus extends for about 124 miles (200 km) and contains the equivalent of 1/5th the mass of our sun. The entire simulation covers only 20 milliseconds.Scientists think neutron star mergers like this produce short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Short GRBs last less than two seconds yet unleash as much energy as all the stars in our galaxy produce over one year. The rapidly fading afterglow of these explosions presents a challenge to astronomers. A key element in understanding GRBs is getting instruments on large ground-based telescopes to capture afterglows as soon as possible after the burst. The rapid notification and accurate positions provided by NASA's Swift mission creates a vibrant synergy with ground-based observatories that has led to dramatically improved understanding of GRBs, especially for short bursts. || ", "release_date": "2014-05-13T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-08-14T22:44:52.133586-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 455853, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011530/NS_Merger_Frame_200_1080.jpg", "filename": "NS_Merger_Frame_200_1080.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Edited video with music of the 4k neutron star merger simulation.Credit: NASA/AEI/ZIB/M. Koppitz and L. RezzollaMusic: \"Approaching Eclipse\" from stock music site Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410903, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "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": 410904, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10770, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10770/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of a Black Hole's Jets", "description": "Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light years away. Radio and X-ray images reveal features associated with jets emanating from near the galaxy's central supermassive black hole, which has a mass of 55 million suns. Now, the TANAMI project has provided the best-ever view of these jets. In the radio image of the galaxy's core, the black hole is invisible but the jets show in great detail. Features as small as 15 light-days across can be resolved. The powerful jets feed vast lobes of radio-emitting gas that reach far beyond the visible galaxy. || ", "release_date": "2011-05-20T09:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:47.023115-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 486071, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010700/a010770/Cen_A_inner_jet_English_no_labels.jpg", "filename": "Cen_A_inner_jet_English_no_labels.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "No Labels. Left: The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128 is the radio source known as Centaurus A. Vast radio-emitting lobes (shown as orange in this optical/radio composite) extend nearly a million light-years from the galaxy. Credit: Capella Observatory (optical), with radio data from Ilana Feain, Tim Cornwell, and Ron Ekers (CSIRO/ATNF), R. Morganti (ASTRON), and N. Junkes (MPIfR). Right: This radio image from the TANAMI project provides the sharpest-ever view of a supermassive black hole's jets. As seen here, the full extent of the jet and counterjet is 4.16 light-years, smaller than the distance between our sun and the nearest star. The image resolves details as small as 15 light-days across. Undetected between the jets is the galaxy's 55-million-solar-mass black hole. Credit: NASA/TANAMI/Müller et al.", "width": 2898, "height": 1823, "pixels": 5283054 } } }, { "id": 410905, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11086, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11086/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes", "description": "According to Einstein, whenever massive objects interact, they produce gravitational waves — distortions in the very fabric of space and time — that ripple outward across the universe at the speed of light. While astronomers have found indirect evidence of these disturbances, the waves have so far eluded direct detection. Ground-based observatories designed to find them are on the verge of achieving greater sensitivities, and many scientists think that this discovery is just a few years away. Catching gravitational waves from some of the strongest sources — colliding black holes with millions of times the sun's mass — will take a little longer. These waves undulate so slowly that they won't be detectable by ground-based facilities. Instead, scientists will need much larger space-based instruments, such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, which was endorsed as a high-priority future project by the astronomical community. A team that includes astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is looking forward to that day by using computational models to explore the mergers of supersized black holes. Their most recent work investigates what kind of \"flash\" might be seen by telescopes when astronomers ultimately find gravitational signals from such an event. To explore the problem, a team led by Bruno Giacomazzo at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and including Baker developed computer simulations that for the first time show what happens in the magnetized gas (also called a plasma) in the last stages of a black hole merger. In the turbulent environment near the merging black holes, the magnetic field intensifies as it becomes twisted and compressed. The team suggests that running the simulation for additional orbits would result in even greater amplification. The most interesting outcome of the magnetic simulation is the development of a funnel-like structure — a cleared-out zone that extends up out of the accretion disk near the merged black hole. The most important aspect of the study is the brightness of the merger's flash. The team finds that the magnetic model produces beamed emission that is some 10,000 times brighter than those seen in previous studies, which took the simplifying step of ignoring plasma effects in the merging disks. || ", "release_date": "2012-09-27T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:44.526816-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 472847, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011000/a011086/Black_Hole_merger_Still.png", "filename": "Black_Hole_merger_Still.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Supercomputer models of merging black holes reveal properties that are crucial to understanding future detections of gravitational waves. This movie follows two orbiting black holes and their accretion disk during their final three orbits and ultimate merger. Redder colors correspond to higher gas densities. This version has music and on-screen labels.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/P. Cowperthwaite, Univ. of MarylandFor complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 410906, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11482, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11482/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "The Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies", "description": "At the hearts of most big galaxies, including our own Milky Way, there lurks a supermassive black hole weighing millions to billions of times the sun's mass. As gas falls toward a supermassive black hole, it gathers into a so-called accretion disk and becomes compressed and heated, ultimately emitting X-rays. The centers of some galaxies produce unusually powerful emission that exceeds the sun's energy output by billions of times. These are active galactic nuclei, or AGN.Using data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite, an international team has uncovered a dozen instances where X-ray signals from active galaxies dimmed as a result of a cloud of gas moving across our line of sight. The new study triples the number of cloud events previously identified in the 16-year archive.The study is the first statistical survey of the environments around supermassive black holes and is the longest-running AGN-monitoring study yet performed in X-rays. Scientists determined various properties of the occulting clouds, which vary in size and shape but average 4 billion miles (6.5 billion km) across – greater than Pluto's distance from the sun — and twice the mass of Earth. They orbit a few light-weeks to a few light-years from the black hole. || ", "release_date": "2014-02-19T11:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:11.411556-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 458303, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011400/a011482/agn_2013_mirko2000.jpg", "filename": "agn_2013_mirko2000.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This animation shows an artist's rendition of the cloudy structure revealed by a study of data from NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite.Credit: Wolfgang Steffen, UNAM", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 410907, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11407, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11407/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Briefing Materials: NASA Missions Explore Record-Setting Cosmic Blast", "description": "On Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, NASA held a media teleconference to discuss new findings related to a brilliant gamma-ray burst detected on April 27. Audio of the teleconference is available for download here.Related feature story: www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-sees-watershed-cosmic-blast-in-unique-detail/.Audio of Sylvia Zhu interview for a Science Podcast. Briefing Speakers Introduction: Paul Hertz, NASA Astrophysics Division Director, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.Charles Dermer, astrophysicist, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.Thomas Vestrand, astrophysicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M.Chryssa Kouveliotou, astrophysicist, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Presenter 1: Charles Dermer || ", "release_date": "2013-11-21T14:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:26.416266-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 460887, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011400/a011407/Nebula-Jet_Still_1.jpg", "filename": "Nebula-Jet_Still_1.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Astronomers think most occur when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, collapses under its own weight, and forms a black hole. The black hole then drives jets of particles that drill all the way through the collapsing star at nearly the speed of light. Artist's rendering.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } } ], "extra_data": {} } ] }