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Wallpaper: Supermassive Black Hole & Friends

Against a purple background with small orange stars stands a smiling blue cartoon figure shaped like a round-topped cylinder with an antenna. They are wearing a bubble-shaped helmet and green space suit. They are looking in awe to the upper left at a large black bird, representing a supermassive black hole. The black bird has a blue beak, two small horn-shaped ear tufts on top of their head, small wings on either side, and narrow legs. Surrounding the black bird are characters including small and large stars, depicted as circles with triangle spikes all the way around them. Also there are pulsars which are white circles with light blue arcs drawn from their top to their bottom, indicating their strong magnetic fields. There’s also a white dwarf, shown as a white circle with a few narrow spikes in an X-shape.
May 3, 2023
Credit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Historical Date May 4, 2023
Language
  • english

Supermassive black holes love being the center of attention, gathering up a lot of company.

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