Friday, November 27, 2015

#BlackHoleFriday - NASA reveals stunning images of Black Holes!

NASA has revealed great images of black holes on this Black Friday! The images look breathtaking.

Here are few of the pictures tweeted by NASA.


This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies. (Smaller black holes also exist throughout galaxies.) In this illustration, the supermassive black hole at the center is surrounded by matter flowing onto the black hole in what is termed an accretion disk. This disk forms as the dust and gas in the galaxy falls onto the hole, attracted by its gravity.

A black hole’s pull of gravity is so strong, no light escapes

An artist's drawing a black hole named Cygnus X-1. It formed when a large star caved in. This black hole pulls matter from blue star beside it.

Black holes aren’t empty holes at all! They’re a massive amount of matter packed in a tiny area

Supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies blast radiation and ultra-fast winds outward, as illustrated in this artist's conception. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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