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            "title": "Black Hole with Accretion Disk Visualization",
            "description": "This visualization shows the strange ways that light is gravitationally warped in the region around a black hole surrounded by a rapidly-rotating disk of gas and dust. The distortions seen in this image are due to the physics of general relativity, which informs us how the path of light is deflected in the presence of a gravitational field. The material forming a black hole has been compressed to densities so high that it is hidden within an “event horizon,” beyond which the gravitational field is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Outside of this event horizon light paths will bend sharply, and even loop around the black hole, under the influence of the intense gravitational fields.The speed at which material, in what is known as an accretion disk, orbits the black hole increases with proximity. The orbital speed of material closest to the event horizon approaches the speed of light. This produces an effect known as “relativistic doppler beaming” which enhances the brightness of material moving towards us along our line of sight, and correspondingly dims the brightness of material moving away.The gravitational warping of the light from background stars is strong, creating the effect of a powerful lens. Light from the region directly behind the black hole forms an “Einstein Ring” that encircles the event horizon. Inside this ring we find an inverted view of the entire sky, which is increasingly distorted. The inner black disk is known as the black hole’s “shadow” which appears slightly larger than the actual location of the event horizon due to the distortion of the light paths.The light from the orbiting material is likewise distorted, making the flat accretion disk appear to bend completely around the black hole’s shadow and have the disk behind the black hole appear to be both above and below it. Yet despite these strange visual distortions that change with viewing angle, the accretion disk itself physically remains flat.These illustrations depict what is known as a “Schwarzschild” black hole, made from material that had no overall rotation. A black hole created from rapidly spinning material retains a sense of this rotation and displays additional asymmetries not pictured here; this is known as a “Kerr” black hole.The appearance of a black hole like this is “scale invariant,” meaning that the way light warps around it will appear the same, regardless of the mass of the object. The only thing that changes is the overall size of the distortions and shadow. Thus a black hole ten times as massive as the one shown here, viewed from ten times further away, would look exactly the same.These animations show qualitatively correct depictions of light distortion around a black hole that use a simplified optical model for the effect, rather than full general relativistic ray-tracing code. || ",
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            "release_date": "2024-07-17T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Isolated Black Hole Visualization",
            "description": "This visualization shows the strange ways that light is gravitationally warped in the region around a black hole. The distortions seen in this image are due to the physics of general relativity, which informs us how the path of light is deflected in the presence of a gravitational field. The material forming a black hole has been compressed to densities so high that it is hidden within an “event horizon,” beyond which the gravitational field is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Outside of this event horizon light paths will bend sharply, and even loop around the black hole, under the influence of the intense gravitational fields.The gravitational warping of the light from background stars is strong, creating the effect of a powerful lens. Light from the region directly behind the black hole forms an “Einstein Ring” that encircles the event horizon. Inside this ring we find an inverted view of the entire sky, which is increasingly distorted. The inner black disk is known as the black hole’s “shadow” which appears slightly larger than the actual location of the event horizon due to the distortion of the light paths.These illustrations depict what is known as a “Schwarzschild” black hole, made from material that had no overall rotation. A black hole created from rapidly spinning material retains a sense of this rotation and displays additional asymmetries not pictured here; this is known as a “Kerr” black hole.The appearance a black hole like this is “scale invariant,” meaning that the way light warps around it will appear the same, regardless of the mass of the object. The only thing that changes is the overall size of the distortions and shadow. Thus a black hole ten times as massive as the one shown here, viewed from ten times further away, would look exactly the same.These animations show qualitatively correct depictions of light distortion around a black hole that use a simplified optical model for the effect, rather than full general relativistic ray-tracing code. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsdbgallery2024goddardsummerfilmfest/",
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            "release_date": "2024-06-28T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "2024 Goddard Summer Film Fest",
            "description": "Hosted by the Goddard Office of Communications, the 15th annual Goddard Film Festival is a special two-day event this year, highlighting the center’s achievements over the past year in astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science.\n \nOn Wednesday, July 17th at 2 pm, the Goett Auditorium in Building 3 will host a screening that will feature missions and topics such as OSIRIS-REx, PACE, CLPS, Voyager, Hubble, black holes, solar eclipses and much more.",
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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": "2024-03-25T06:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Countdown Is On For The Historic Solar Eclipse On April 8th That Will Sweep Across the U.S. Are You Ready for It?",
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            "release_date": "2023-03-14T09:55:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hubble Science: Einstein Rings, Optical Illusions",
            "description": "An Einstein Ring can be explained by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, which causes light shining from a faraway galaxy to be warped by the gravity of an object between its source and the observer. This effect was first theorized by Albert Einstein in 1912, and later worked into his theory of general relativity.In this video, Dr. Brian Welch explains this fascinating phenomenon of nature, and goes over how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the universe.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer & Director: James LeighEditor: Lucy LundDirector of Photography: James BallAdditional Editing & Photography: Matthew DuncanExecutive Producers: James Leigh & Matthew DuncanProduction & Post: Origin Films Video Credit:Hubble Space Telescope AnimationsCredit: M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) Gravitational Lensing in MACS J1149-2223Credit: ESA/Hubble, L. CalçadaMusic Credit:\"Binary Fission\" by Tom Kane [PRS] via BBC Production Music [PRS], and Universal Production Music“Cosmic Call” by Immersive Music (Via Shutterstock Music) || ",
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            "release_date": "2022-11-09T10:55:00-05:00",
            "title": "Hubble Captures 3 Faces of Evolving Supernova",
            "description": "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 || ",
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            "release_date": "2021-11-26T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Supercomputer Simulations Test Star-destroying Black Holes",
            "description": "Watch eight model stars stretch and deform as they approach a virtual black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun. The black hole’s gravity rips some stars apart into a stream of gas, a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Others manage to withstand their close encounters. These simulations show that destruction and survival depend on the stars’ initial densities. Yellow represents the greatest densities, blue the least dense. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Taeho Ryu (MPA)Music: \"Lava Flow Instrumental\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || 14000_TDE_Simulation_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [205.0 KB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [42.8 KB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.9 KB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [357.4 MB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [164.7 MB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_1080.webm (1920x1080) [17.6 MB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.7 KB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.7 KB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2021-09-23T10:55:00-04:00",
            "title": "Einstein Ring Spotted By Hubble",
            "description": "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 & NASA, S. Jha, L. ShatzGravitational lensing in action video: NASA, ESA & L. CalçadaAlbert Einstein video: Pond 5Music Credits: \"’Finder\" by Jamal Steven Pilgrim [ASCAP] via Open Note [ASCAP], and Universal Production Music. || ",
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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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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13607/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2020-05-20T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Broadening Our Cosmic Horizons",
            "description": "Learn about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Climb the Ladder\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Roman_Space_Telescope_Still_4.jpg (1920x1080) [166.9 KB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Still_4_print.jpg (1024x576) [45.8 KB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Still_4_searchweb.png (320x180) [39.6 KB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Still_4_thm.png (80x40) [3.9 KB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Overview_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.2 GB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Overview_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [701.8 MB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Overview_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [249.0 MB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Overview_1080.webm (1920x1080) [18.3 MB] || Roman_Overview_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [3.0 KB] || Roman_Overview_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.0 KB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2019-12-12T11:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "NASA’s NICER Sizes Up a Pulsar, Reveals First-ever Surface Map",
            "description": "Watch how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has expanded our understanding of pulsars, the dense, spinning corpses of exploded stars. Pulsar J0030+0451 (J0030 for short), located 1,100 light-years away in the constellation Pisces, now has the most precise and reliable measurements of both a pulsar’s mass and size to date. The shapes and locations of its hot spots challenge textbook depictions of these incredible objects. Music: \"Uncertain Ahead\" and \"Flowing Cityscape\" (underscore).  Both from Universal Production MusicCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Two_NS_Model_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [308.5 KB] || Two_NS_Model_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [140.4 KB] || Two_NS_Model_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.0 KB] || Two_NS_Model_Still_thm.png (80x40) [8.0 KB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_1080.webm (1920x1080) [33.5 MB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [301.1 MB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [804.5 MB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [5.9 KB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [5.9 KB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.9 GB] || ",
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            "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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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2019-07-22T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "How the Sun Warps Starlight",
            "description": "This illustration shows how the Sun's gravity bends the path of light from a distant star, changing its apparent location in the sky. The effect is highly exaggerated here. From Earth, the apparent deflection would appear to be no more than the width of a dime seen at 1.25 miles away. || Sun_Gravitational_Lensing_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [259.6 KB] || Sun_Gravitational_Lensing_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [79.3 KB] || Sun_Gravitational_Lensing_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.1 KB] || Sun_Gravitational_Lensing_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.7 KB] || Sun_Gravitational_Lensing_FINAL_ProRes_1920x1080.mov (1920x1080) [243.6 MB] || Sun_Gravitational_Lensing_FINAL_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [26.8 MB] || Sun_Gravitational_Lensing_FINAL_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [16.1 MB] || Sun_Gravitational_Lensing_FINAL_Small.mp4 (1280x720) [5.9 MB] || Sun_Gravitational_Lensing_FINAL_Small.webm (1280x720) [1.6 MB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/general-relativity/",
            "result_type": "Gallery",
            "release_date": "2019-05-29T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "General Relativity",
            "description": "This is a collection of media resources available on the Scientific Visualization Studio website relating to Einstein's general theory of relativity. \n\nMore information and media can be found at:\nNASA's Blueshift Blog\n100 Years of General Relativity\nHow Scientists Captured the First Image of a Black Hole\n\nFor students and teachers:\nNASA's Space PLace - Einstein\nNASA's Cosmic Times - the universe\nNASA's Cosmic Times - pulsar gravitational waves\nNASA's Physics and Engineering Collection\nGravity's Grin\n\n\nNews and missions:\nThree Ways to Travel at (Nearly) the Speed of Light\nGravity Probe B\nLISA - Laser Interferometer Space Antenna\nScientist further confirms Einstein’s theory through new solar research\nLIGO Has Detected Gravitational Waves\nSimulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes\nResults of Epic Space-Time Experiment\nListening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars \nBlack Hole Image Makes History\nTracking the Motion of Mercury",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13043/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2018-10-02T10:50:00-04:00",
            "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] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12880/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2018-03-05T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Cosmic Designs and The Planets",
            "description": "Greetings and welcome to “Cosmic Designs” a performance by the National Philharmonic presented in partnership with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.“Cosmic Designs” is a voyage that blends together science and art. The pursuit of knowledge and the creative drive for artistic expression are inherent to the human condition. The melding of NASA imagery and symphonic music we present here showcases the imagination that underpins both and highlights how inspiring the combination can be. || CD_Intro_Image_print.jpg (1024x567) [135.2 KB] || CD_Intro_Image.png (2918x1618) [5.8 MB] || CD_Intro_Image_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.7 KB] || CD_Intro_Image_web.png (320x177) [101.8 KB] || CD_Intro_Image_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_1080.mov (1920x1080) [1.0 GB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [35.9 MB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_1080.webm (1920x1080) [3.3 MB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_4K.mov (3840x2160) [4.3 GB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [55.1 MB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2017-12-22T13:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "WFIRST Will See the Big Picture of the Universe",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12565/",
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            "release_date": "2017-08-06T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Are You Ready for the Eclipse? (Live Interviews on Aug. 16, 2017)",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2016-12-15T13:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Microlensing Study: Most Common Outer Planets Likely Neptune-mass",
            "description": "A new statistical study of planets found by the gravitational microlensing technique suggests that Neptune-mass planets may be the most common worlds in the outer reaches of planetary systems. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Hurricanes Wrap My Heart\" from Stockmusic.netWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || MOA_II_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [117.4 KB] || MOA_II_Still.png (3356x1888) [8.3 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.3 GB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_FINAL_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [821.9 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_H264_Good_1080.mov (1920x1080) [369.1 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_FINAL_HD.wmv (1920x1080) [167.7 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_H264_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [246.3 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_FINAL_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [124.2 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_Compatible_540.m4v (960x540) [94.7 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [24.6 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_FINAL_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [124.4 MB] || Microlensing_Neptunes_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.5 KB] || Microlensing_Neptunes_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.5 KB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_FINAL_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [42.6 MB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Animation",
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            "title": "Gravitational Microlensing Animation",
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            "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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            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
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            "title": "A Black Hole Visits Baltimore",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11625/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-08-18T15:00:00-04:00",
            "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. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11118/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-01-08T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Swift Catches X-ray Activity at the Galaxy's Center",
            "description": "A seven-year campaign to monitor the center of our galaxy with NASA's Swift spacecraft has provided astronomers with a unique bounty, more than doubling the number of bright X-ray flares observed from our galaxy's central black hole and leading to the discovery of a rare type of neutron star.The innermost region of our galaxy lies 26,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. At the center of it all lurks Sgr A* (pronounced \"saj a-star\"), a behemoth black hole containing 4 million times the sun's mass.Sgr A* regularly produces bright X-ray flares today, but astronomers know it was much more active in the past. To better understand its long-term behavior, the Swift team began regular observations of the galactic center in February 2006. Every few days, the spacecraft turns toward the inmost galaxy and takes a 17-minute-long \"snapshot\" with its X-Ray Telescope (XRT). Swift's XRT has now detected six bright flares, during which the black hole's X-ray emission brightened by up to 150 times for a couple of hours. These new detections, in addition to four found by other spacecraft, enabled astronomers to estimate that similar flares occur every five to 10 days. The Swift XRT team is on the lookout for the first sign that a small cold gas cloud named G2, which is swinging near Sgr A*, has begun emitting X-rays. This is expected to start sometime in spring 2014. The event will unfold for years and may fuel strong activity from the monster black hole. The monitoring campaign has already yielded one important discovery: SGR J1745-29, an object called a magnetar. This subclass of neutron star has a magnetic field thousands of times stronger than normal; so far, only 26 magnetars are known. A magnetar orbiting Sgr A* may allow scientists to explore important properties of the black hole and test predictions of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. || ",
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            "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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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
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            "title": "Atomic Interferometry",
            "description": "Einstein predicted gravity waves in his general theory of relativity, but to date these ripples in the fabric of space-time have never been observed. Now a scientific research technique called Atomic Interferometry is trying to re-write the canon. In conjunction with researchers at Stanford University, scientists at NASA Goddard are developing a system to measure the faint gravitational vibrations generated by movement of massive objects in the universe. The scientific payoff could be important, helping better clarify key issues in our understanding of cosmology. But application payoff could be substantial, too, with the potential to develop profound advances in fields like geolocation and timekeeping. In this video we examine how the system would work, and the scientific underpinnings of the research effort. || ",
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        {
            "id": 11086,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11086/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-09-27T12:00:00-04:00",
            "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. || ",
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            "title": "RXTE Sees Eclipses from Fast X-ray Pulsar",
            "description": "Astronomers using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have found the first fast X-ray pulsar to be eclipsed by its companion star. Further studies of this unique stellar system will shed light on some of the most compressed matter in the universe and test a key prediction of Einstein's relativity theory.Known as Swift J1749.4-2807 — J1749 for short — the system erupted with an X-ray outburst on April 10. During the event, RXTE observed three eclipses, detected X-ray pulses that identified the neutron star as a pulsar, and even recorded pulse variations that indicated the neutron star's orbital motion. More information here. || ",
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            "title": "Neutron Star Merge",
            "description": "Binary systems containing neutron stars are born when the cores of two orbiting stars collapse in supernova explosions. Neutron stars pack the mass of our sun into the size of a city. They are so dense and packed so tightly that the boundaries atoms nuclei disappear. In such systems, Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that neutron stars emit gravitational radiation, ripples of space-time. This causes the orbits to shrink and gradually brings the neutron stars closer together. Shown here is such a system after about 1 billion years, when two equal-mass neutron whirl around each other at 60,000 times a minute. The stars merge in a few milliseconds, sending out a burst of gravitational waves and a brief, intense gamma-ray burst. || ",
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            "title": "Black Hole Binary Creates Gravity Waves",
            "description": "When smaller black holes orbit around a supermassive black hole, Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that they will emit gravitational radiation. These ripples of space-time cause the orbits to shrink and gradually brings the black holes closer enough together to merge. || ",
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            "title": "The LISA Spacecraft",
            "description": "The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) consists of three spacecraft orbiting the sun in a triangular configuration. The LISA mission will study the mergers of supermassive black holes, test Einstein's theory of general relativity, probe the early universe, and search for gravitational waves. As these passing waves ripple space and time, they will alter the laser beams shining between the spacecraft, offering a different perspective on the universe. LISA is scheduled for launch in 2015. || ",
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            "description": "The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) consists of three spacecraft orbiting the sun in a triangular configuration. The LISA mission will study the mergers of supermassive black holes, test Einstein's theory of general relativity, probe the early universe, and search for gravitational waves. As these passing waves ripple space and time, they will alter the laser beams shining between the spacecraft, offering a different perspective on the Universe. LISA is scheduled for launch in 2015. || ",
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            "description": "The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) consists of three spacecraft orbiting the sun in a triangular configuration. The LISA mission will study the mergers of supermassive black holes, test Einstein's theory of general relativity, probe the early Universe, and search for gravitational waves. As these passing waves ripple space and time, they will alter the lasers shining between the spacecraft, offering a different perspective on the Universe. LISA is scheduled for launch in 2015. || ",
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            "description": "A black hole is a massive object whose gravitational field is so intense that no light (electromagnetic radiation) can escape it. When two orbiting black holes merge, a massive amount of energy is released in the form of jets. Meanwhile, the movement of these massive bodies disturbs the fabric of space-time around them, sending ripples of gravitational waves radiating outward. These waves are predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, but have yet to be directly detected. || ",
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            "title": "Neutron Star Collision",
            "description": "Systems of orbiting neutron stars are born when the cores of two old stars collapse in supernova explosions. Neutron stars have the mass of our Sun but are the size of a city, so dense that boundaries between atoms disappear. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that the orbit shrinks from ripples of space-time called gravitational waves. After about 1 billion simulation years, the two neutron stars closely circle each other at 60,000 revolutions per minute. The stars finally merge in a few milliseconds, sending out a burst of gravitational waves. || ",
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