The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
April 15, 2021
| Credit | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell |
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| Historical Date | April 15, 2021 |
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A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic dance in this NASA visualization. The movie traces how the black holes distort and redirect light emanating from the maelstrom of hot gas – called an accretion disk – that surrounds each one.