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Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star

By |2024-06-16T09:09:11-04:00June 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What happens if a star gets too close to a black hole? The black hole can rip it apart -- but how? It's not the high gravitational attraction itself that's the problem -- it's the difference in gravitational pull across the star that creates the destruction. In the featured animated [...]

Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge

By |2024-05-10T09:09:33-04:00May 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Relax and watch two black holes merge. Inspired by the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, this simulation plays in slow motion but would take about one third of a second if run in real time. Set on a cosmic stage, the black holes are posed in front [...]

Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk

By |2024-05-08T09:09:09-04:00May 8th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What would it look like to circle a black hole? If the black hole was surrounded by a swirling disk of glowing and accreting gas, then the great gravity of the black hole would deflect light emitted by the disk to make it look very unusual. The featured animated video [...]

Black Hole Accreting with Jet

By |2024-05-07T09:09:05-04:00May 7th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What happens when a black hole devours a star? Many details remain unknown, but observations are providing new clues. In 2014, a powerful explosion was recorded by the ground-based robotic telescopes of the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (Project ASAS-SN), with followed-up observations by instruments including NASA's Earth-orbiting Swift [...]

A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star

By |2024-05-05T09:09:09-04:00May 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What happens to a star that goes near a black hole? If the star directly impacts a massive black hole, then the star falls in completely -- and everything vanishes. More likely, though, the star goes close enough to have the black hole's gravity pull away its outer layers, or [...]

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