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            "release_date": "2026-01-20T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Extreme Mass Ratio Black Hole Inspirals (EMRIs)",
            "description": "Shows seven unique black hole inspirals.",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14818/",
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            "release_date": "2025-09-26T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Plunge: Behind the Scenes Creating NASA's Black Hole Visualization",
            "description": "Behind the scenes video about the Black Hole visualization from 2024",
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            "release_date": "2024-05-07T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Primordial Black Holes",
            "description": "This artist's concept takes a fanciful approach to imagining small primordial black holes. In reality, such tiny black holes would have a difficult time forming the accretion disks that make them visible here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_1080.jpg (1920x1080) [275.1 KB] || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k_print.jpg (1024x576) [51.1 KB] || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k.jpg (3840x2160) [2.5 MB] || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k.png (3840x2160) [7.3 MB] || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k_searchweb.png (320x180) [61.5 KB] || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || ",
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            "title": "NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink",
            "description": "In this flight toward a supermassive black hole, labels highlight many of the fascinating features produced by the effects of general relativity along the way. This supercomputer visualization tracks a camera as it approaches, briefly orbits, and then crosses the event horizon — the point of no return — of a supersized black hole similar in mass to the one at the center of our galaxy.  Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. PowellMusic: “Tidal Force,” Thomas Daniel Bellingham [PRS], Universal Production Music“Memories” from Digital Juice“Path Finder,” Eric Jacobsen [TONO] and Lorenzo Castellarin [BMI], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || 14576_BHPlunge_Explain_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || 14576_PageThumbnail.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || 14576_PageThumbnail_searchweb.png (180x320) [85.0 KB] || 14576_PageThumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [9.6 KB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [319.5 MB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_Captions.en_US.srt [2.5 KB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.4 KB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.5 GB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_4kYouTube.mp4 (3840x2160) [3.0 GB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [12.8 GB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
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            "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] || ",
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            "release_date": "2023-05-01T10:45:00-04:00",
            "title": "NASA Animation Sizes Up the Universe’s Biggest Black Holes",
            "description": "All monster black holes are not equal. 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. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabMusic: \"In the Stars\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SMBH_Scale_Still_1.jpg (3840x2160) [3.0 MB] || SMBH_Scale_Still_1_searchweb.png (180x320) [71.4 KB] || SMBH_Scale_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [4.2 KB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_V2_1080_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [166.0 MB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_V2_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [102.7 MB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_V2_1080_Best.webm (1920x1080) [13.3 MB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_V2_ProRes_3840x2160_60.mov (3840x2160) [12.6 GB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_V2_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [314.2 MB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.2 KB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.2 KB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2022-05-02T10:45:00-04:00",
            "title": "NASA's Black Hole Orrery",
            "description": "Learn more about the best-known black hole systems in our galaxy and its neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. 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. || Black_Hole_Orrery_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [321.9 KB] || Black_Hole_Orrery_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [25.6 KB] || Black_Hole_Orrery_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.1 KB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_FINAL_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [118.8 MB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_FINAL_1080.webm (1920x1080) [12.4 MB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [1.9 GB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_FINAL_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [379.2 MB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_FINAL_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [176.7 MB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.9 KB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2022-05-02T10:15:00-04:00",
            "title": "An Orrery of Black Holes and Their Companions",
            "description": "Full visualization of the binary system black hole orrery with labels and legend included.Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio || explainerComp_5-27-2022a_2160p60.02000_print.jpg (1024x576) [54.7 KB] || explainerComp_5-27-2022a (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || explainerComp_5-27-2022a_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [35.7 MB] || explainerComp_5-27-2022a_2160p60.webm (3840x2160) [26.6 MB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4997/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2022-05-02T10:15:00-04:00",
            "title": "Black Holes and Their Companions Close Up",
            "description": "Close up view of GRS 1915.Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio || closeupGlow_withOrbits_GRS1915_4k_4-25-2022a_2160p30.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [25.6 KB] || withOrbitLines_EXR (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || withOrbitLines_PNG (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || withOrbitLines_EXR (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || withOrbitLines_PNG (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || closeupGlow_withOrbits_GRS1915_4k_4-25-2022a_2160p30.webm (3840x2160) [10.3 MB] || noOrbitLines_EXR (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || noOrbitLines_PNG (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || closeupGlow_withOrbits_GRS1915_4k_5-2-2022a_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [180.1 MB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14133/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2022-04-06T13:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Concert videos",
            "description": "These videos are designed to accompany live orchestral performances.  For more information and inquiries about their use, please contact Scott Wiessinger at scott.wiessinger@nasa.gov. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13831/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2021-04-15T13:00:00-04:00",
            "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.  Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Supermassive_BlackHole_Binary_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [726.7 KB] || Supermassive_BlackHole_Binary_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [18.9 KB] || Supermassive_BlackHole_Binary_Still_thm.png (80x40) [2.5 KB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_1080.webm (1920x1080) [23.8 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [234.7 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [348.3 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [936.6 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_ProRes_3840x2160_30.mov (3840x2160) [4.1 GB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_4k_Best.mp4.hwshow [137 bytes] || ",
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            "id": 13326,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2019-09-25T13:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization",
            "description": "This movie shows a complete revolution around a simulated black hole and its accretion disk following a path that is perpendicular to the disk. 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! Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.00001_print.jpg (1024x1024) [33.2 KB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [17.0 KB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.00001_thm.png (80x40) [1.9 KB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_1080.mp4 (1080x1080) [19.0 MB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_1080.webm (1080x1080) [2.8 MB] || 360 (3840x3840) [0 Item(s)] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k.mp4 (3840x3840) [119.2 MB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.mov (3840x3840) [1020.1 MB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12265/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2016-06-22T13:00:00-04:00",
            "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] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12027/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2015-11-23T11:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "NASM 2015: Our Violent Universe",
            "description": "NASM 2015 Presentation - Our Violent Universe || poster-VX-73356-00-00-25,41.jpg (1280x720) [159.6 KB] || poster-VX-73356-00-00-25,41_searchweb.png (320x180) [94.7 KB] || poster-VX-73356-00-00-25,41_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || APPLE_TV_G2015-086_NASM_2015_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [1.6 GB] || NASA_TV_G2015-086_NASM_2015.mpeg (1280x720) [10.9 GB] || WMV_G2015-086_NASM_2015_HD.wmv (1280x720) [630.3 MB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_G2015-086_NASM_2015_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [8.3 GB] || G2015-086_NASM_2015_edited.mov (1280x720) [29.2 GB] || WEBM_G2015-086_NASM_2015.webm (960x540) [1.3 GB] || APPLE_TV_G2015-086_NASM_2015_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [1.6 GB] || G2015-086_NASM2015.en_US.srt [77.0 KB] || G2015-086_NASM2015.en_US.vtt [72.4 KB] || NASA_PODCAST_G2015-086_NASM_2015_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [589.1 MB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2015-06-23T14:00:00-04:00",
            "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] || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11206/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-06-14T10:00:00-04:00",
            "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. || ",
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