NASA celebrates the monsters that suck in light, matter, and everything else that comes too close to them during Black Hole Week. Black holes are not impossible to imagine because they eat light. As part of the festivities, the media department at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has shared a selection of some of the best visualization of black holes so you can get an idea of what these mind-bending phenomena are like.
If you want to decorate your device with black hole imagery, you can use the images as desktop and mobile wallpaper. There is a simulation of a system with two interacting black holes.
A visualization of a black hole.
An illustration of the disk of matter swirling around a black hole, called the accretion disk, which will eventually be sucked into the black hole once it passes the event horizon, as well as an incredibly hot region called the corona which sends X-rays streaming out into space:
An image showing the bustling center of our universe, where objects dance around a black hole.
A visible light image taken by Hubble shows the huge jets of energy given off by a black hole in a galaxy.
Black holes were thought to be impossible to image because of their light-darking properties. The first ever image of a black hole was captured by the event horizon telescope in 2019. They were able to use radio telescopes from all over the world to capture signals from the edge of an event horizon, the boundary of a black hole. The black hole is 55 million light-years away.
The event horizon telescope team is preparing for a big announcement. The results of a finding in the Milky Way will be presented by the EHT team this week. There is a chance that a picture of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, is on the way.
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