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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
NASA ^ | 6 May, 2025 | Scientific Visualization Credit: NASA, GSFC, Jeremy Schnittman & Brian P. Powell; Text: Francis J. R

Posted on 05/06/2025 12:05:53 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: If one black hole looks strange, what about two? Light rays from accretion disks around a pair of orbiting supermassive black holes make their way through the warped space-time produced by extreme gravity in this detailed computer visualization. The simulated accretion disks have been given different false color schemes, red for the disk surrounding a 200-million-solar-mass black hole, and blue for the disk surrounding a 100-million-solar-mass black hole. For these masses, though, both accretion disks would actually emit most of their light in the ultraviolet. The video allows us to see both sides of each black hole at the same time. Red and blue light originating from both black holes can be seen in the innermost ring of light, called the photon sphere, near their event horizons. In the past decade, gravitational waves from black hole collisions have actually been detected, although the coalescence of supermassive black holes remains undiscovered.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

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Todays image is a video simulation at the source link.

1 posted on 05/06/2025 12:05:53 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
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πŸͺ 🌟 🌌 πŸ” Todays image is a video simulation at the source link.

2 posted on 05/06/2025 12:06:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Binary?

What are its pronouns?.......................


3 posted on 05/06/2025 12:43:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

LOL!! The still image for the YouTube video looks like Trump’s profile (the swept hair), just darker orange than he’s ever dreamed of.


4 posted on 05/06/2025 12:52:07 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: Red Badger

“What are its pronouns?.......................”

Stupid, Joke


5 posted on 05/06/2025 1:05:45 PM PDT by TexasGator (111111.1'11.'11/'~~'111./.)
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To: MtnClimber

OJ 287 is a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) 4 billion light-years from Earth. They have produced quasi-periodic optical outbursts going back approximately 120 years since at least 1887. The intrinsic brightness of the flashes corresponds to over a trillion times the Sun’s luminosity, greater than the entire Milky Way galaxy’s light output. Only recently have the outbursts been predicted in advance.


6 posted on 05/06/2025 1:20:57 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Red Badger

Binary Black Holes are weird enough. I’d hate to think what a Nonbinary Black Hole would be like.


7 posted on 05/06/2025 1:36:45 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: MtnClimber

Just imagine if one of them suddenly declared “I identify as non-binary!”


8 posted on 05/06/2025 2:18:23 PM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! )
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To: MtnClimber

Music sounds like Trentemoller.. 😎


9 posted on 05/06/2025 2:47:02 PM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: Nateman

It’s too bad Einstein or Stephen Hawking aren’t around to comment on the video, it would be fascinating to hear what they might have to say.


10 posted on 05/06/2025 3:21:12 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! πŸ”­)
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