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The supermassive black hole imaged by the EHT is located in the center of the elliptical galaxy M87, located about 55 million light years from Earth. This image was captured by FORS2 on ESO's Very Large Telescope. The short linear feature near the center of the image is a jet produced by the black hole. Credit: ESO

This artist's impression depicts a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc. The black hole is labeled, showing the anatomy of this fascinating object. Credit: ESO

This celestial circle of light is produced by the glow of sunlight scattered through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere as the Sun is occulted by Titan. It is the sum of all the sunsets and sunris...

This is a highly detailed look at the feathery, wavelike patterns in the cloud bands of Saturn's southern hemisphere. Near the center, long filaments wrap around a swirling vortex. Notable is the e...

This image is one of seven from the narrow-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft assembled as a brief movie of high-altitude cloud movements on Jupiter. It was taken in early October 2000.

This image shows InSight's domed Wind and Thermal Shield, which covers its seismometer.

Shadows cast onto Saturn by its rings, visible here as dark bands, move steadily towards the equator and grow thinner as equinox approaches.

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These two Cassini images, taken four years before Saturn's August 2009 equinox, have taken on a new significance as data gathered at equinox indicate the streaks in these images are likely evidence...

Surface Streaks
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Catching Saturn's Waves
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Hovering Mimas
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These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Urbinia quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere. Rays of bright material surround Canuleia crater and rays of dark materi...

Following a successful close flyby of Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this artful composition of the icy moon with Saturn's rings beyond.

Like an ancient mariner charting the coastline of an unexplored wilderness, Cassini's repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place.

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Capturing the interplay between light and shadow, the Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn where sunlight reflected off the rings has dimly illuminated what would otherwise be t...

This composite was produced from images returned yesterday, January 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows the boundary betw...

The Cassini spacescraft takes a break from the Saturn system to check out the Seven Sisters.

Cassini imaged the Pleiades star cluster, also called the Seven Sisters, as part of a routine to moni...

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These three images, created from Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, show the appearance and evolution of a mysterious feature in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest hydrocarbon seas on Saturn...

In this extremely narrow angle field-of-view artist's rendering Iapetus, with its notable dark surface, occupies the foreground
with a dimly lit crescent Saturn low in the sky. Iapetus' surface sh...

This image of bright spots in a small crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 1, 2018 from an altitude of about 179 miles (288 kilometers).

During a non-targeted flyby by the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Nov. 26, 2005, Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer measured the spectrum of the plumes originating...

Saturn's brilliant limb shines through the semi-transparent A ring, while the outer F ring shepherd moon hangs against the black sky.

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The orbits of Dione and Titan bring them together in one frame in this distant glimpse from the Cassini spacecraft.

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This sweeping view of Saturn's rings offers a look at how the planet's moons help shape and maintain this structure, making Saturn the jewel of the solar system.

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A new image shows at least 17 dust rings created by a rare type of star and its companion locked in a celestial dance.

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This is the first picture of a black hole.
Using the Event Horizon Telescope, scientists obtained an image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. (There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy — the Milky Way .)
The black hole is outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon.
A black hole is a dense, compact object whose gravitational pull is so strong that – within a certain distance of it – nothing can escape, not even light.
Black holes are thought to result from the collapse of very massive stars at the ends of their evolution. The gravity is so strong because matter (the mass) has been squeezed into a tiny space.

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This gallery gathers together visualizations and narrated videos about black holes. A black hole is a celestial object whose gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape it. Astronomers observe two main types of black holes. Stellar-mass black holes contain three to dozens of times the mass of our Sun. They form when the cores of very massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight, compressing large amounts of matter into a tiny space. Supermassive black holes, with masses up to billions of times the Sun’s, can be found at the centers of most big galaxies. Although a black hole does not emit light, matter falling toward it collects in a hot, glowing accretion disk that astronomers can detect.

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M87: Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
NASA Visualization Probes the Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Hubble Uncovers Concentration of Small Black Holes
Swift Links Neutrino to Star-destroying Black Hole
Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization
Mysterious ‘Cow’ Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes
New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes
NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole
Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images
Swift Charts a Star's 'Death Spiral' into Black Hole
Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole
Milky Way Center in Multiple Wavelengths
Swift, TESS Catch Eruptions from an Active Galaxy
M87: Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
NASA Visualization Probes the Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Hubble Uncovers Concentration of Small Black Holes
Swift Links Neutrino to Star-destroying Black Hole
Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization
Mysterious ‘Cow’ Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes
New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes
NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole
Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images
Swift Charts a Star's 'Death Spiral' into Black Hole
Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole
Milky Way Center in Multiple Wavelengths
Swift, TESS Catch Eruptions from an Active Galaxy
M87: Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
NASA Visualization Probes the Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Hubble Uncovers Concentration of Small Black Holes
Swift Links Neutrino to Star-destroying Black Hole
Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization
Mysterious ‘Cow’ Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes
New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes
NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole
Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images
Swift Charts a Star's 'Death Spiral' into Black Hole
Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole
Milky Way Center in Multiple Wavelengths
Swift, TESS Catch Eruptions from an Active Galaxy
M87: Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
NASA Visualization Probes the Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Hubble Uncovers Concentration of Small Black Holes
Swift Links Neutrino to Star-destroying Black Hole
Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization
Mysterious ‘Cow’ Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes
New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes
NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole
Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images
Swift Charts a Star's 'Death Spiral' into Black Hole
Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole
Milky Way Center in Multiple Wavelengths
Swift, TESS Catch Eruptions from an Active Galaxy
This visualization shows 22 X-ray binaries in our Milky Way galaxy and its nearest neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud, that host confirmed stellar-mass black holes. The systems are shown at the same physical scale, and their orbital motion is sped up by nearly 22,000 times. The view of each binary replicates how we see it from Earth. The star colors range from blue-white to reddish, representing temperatures from 5 times hotter to 45% cooler than our Sun.

While the black holes appear on a scale reflecting their masses, all are depicted using spheres larger than actual size. Cygnus X-1, with the largest companion star shown, is the first black hole ever confirmed and weighs about 21 times more than the Sun. But its surface – called its event horizon – spans only about 77 miles (124 kilometers). The enlarged spheres also cover up visible distortions produced by the black holes’ gravitational effects.

In most of these systems, a stream of gas flows directly from the star toward the black hole, forming around it a broad, flattened structure called an accretion disk. In others, like Cygnus X-1, a massive star produces a thick outflow called a stellar wind, some of which becomes swept up by the black hole’s intense gravity. Gas in the accretion disk heats up as the material slowly spirals inward, glowing in visible, ultraviolet, and finally X-ray light. Because the accretion disks reach even higher temperatures than the stars, they use a different color scheme.
This gallery brings together resources related to NASA’s Black Hole Week — videos, social media products, news stories, still images, and assets. This week is a celebration of celestial objects with gravity so intense that even light cannot escape them. Our goal is that no matter where people turn that week they will run into a black hole. (Figuratively, of course — we don’t want anyone falling in!)
Thinking about doing some black hole watching the next time you’re on an intergalactic vacation, but you’re not quite sure where to start? Well, look no further!

This series of videos shows you everything you need to know. With topics ranging from basic black holes, to fancy black holes, to giant black holes and their companions, you’ll be more than ready for your next adventure.

In addition to the videos, you can also download a printable guide that has even more information.

Note: While these videos can be shared in their entirety without permission, their music has been licensed and may not be excised or remixed in other products.
M87: Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole

Beginning with the Event Horizon Telescope's now iconic image of the black hole at the center of M87, a new video takes viewers on a journey through the data from each telescope. The video shows data across many factors of 10 in scale, both of wavelengths of light and physical size.

In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This supermassive black hole weighs 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun and is located at the center of M87, about 55 million light-years from Earth.

The supermassive black hole is powering jets of particles that travel at almost the speed of light, as described in the press release . These jets produce light spanning the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to visible light to gamma rays.

To gain crucial insight into the black hole's properties and help interpret the EHT image, scientists coordinated observations with 19 of the world's most powerful telescopes on the ground and in space, collecting light from across the spectrum. This is the largest simultaneous observing campaign ever undertaken on a supermassive black hole with jets. The Astrophysical Journal Letter describing these results is available here .

The NASA telescopes involved in this observing campaign included the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

The sequence begins with the Event Horizon Telescope(EHT) image of the black hole. It then moves through images from other radio telescope arrays from around the globe, moving outward in the field of view during each step. (The scale for the width of squares is given in light-years in the bottom right).

Next, the view changes to telescopes that detect visible light (Hubble and Swift), ultraviolet light (Swift), and X-rays (Chandra and NuSTAR). The screen splits to show how these images, which cover the same amount of the sky, compared to one another. The sequence finishes by showing what gamma-ray telescopes on the ground, and Fermi in space, detect from this black hole and its jet.

Throughout the sequence, the smallest detail that the array or telescope can see increases in size by a large amount. For example the smallest details that the EHT, Chandra, and Fermi can see are less than 0.01 light-year, about 100 light-years, and greater than 100,000 light-years, respectively. Only the EHT can detect the black hole's shadow, and at the other extreme, Fermi is not able to determine whether the gamma-ray emission it detects comes from regions close to the black hole or from the jet.

The data were collected by a team of 760 scientists and engineers from nearly 200 institutions, 32 countries or regions, using observatories funded by agencies and institutions around the globe. The observations were concentrated from the end of March to the middle of April 2017.

Additional information and related imagery can be found on the Chandra X-Ray Observatory site
NASA Visualization Probes the Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
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.

Viewed from near the orbital plane, each accretion disk takes on a characteristic warped look. But as one passes in front of the other, the gravity of the foreground black hole transforms its partner into a rapidly changing sequence of arcs. These distortions play out as light from the accretion disks navigates the tangled fabric of space and time near the black holes.

The simulated binary contains two supermassive black holes, a larger one with 200 million solar masses and a smaller companion weighing half as much. Astronomers think that in binary systems like this, both black holes could maintain accretion disks for millions of years.

The disks have different colors, red and blue, to make it easier to track the light sources, but the choice also reflects reality. Gas orbiting lower-mass black holes experiences stronger effects that produce higher temperatures. For these masses, both accretion disks would actually emit most of their light in the UV, with the blue disk reaching a slightly higher temperature.

Visualizations like this help scientists picture the fascinating consequences of extreme gravity’s funhouse mirror.

Seen nearly edgewise, the accretion disks look noticeably brighter on one side. Gravitational distortion alters the paths of light coming from different parts of the disks, producing the warped image. The rapid motion of gas near the black hole modifies the disk’s luminosity through a phenomenon called Doppler boosting – an effect of Einstein’s relativity theory that brightens the side rotating toward the viewer and dims the side spinning away.

The visualization also shows a more subtle phenomenon called relativistic aberration. The black holes appear smaller as they approach the viewer and larger when moving away.

These effects disappear when viewing the system from above, but new features emerge. Both black holes produce small images of their partners that circle around them each orbit. Looking closely, it’s clear that these images are actually edge-on views. To produce them, light from
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