Black hole event horizon: Stunning images of black holes we've never actually seen
Researchers may soon release the first-ever close up of the edge of a black hole in the Milky Way.
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The Event Horizon Project is expected to release the first-ever direct image of a black hole’s edge. As you get closer and closer to the centre of a black hole, space becomes much more curved. It eventually curves into space from within which even light can’t escape: the ‘event horizon’. Image: Pixabay/JohnsonMartin
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A dust-bound supermassive black hole [artist’s impression] Image: ESA/Hubble, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani
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The fictional Miller’s planet orbiting the black hole ‘Gargantua’ in the movie Interstellar. Image: Interstellarfilm.wikia.com/Paramount Pictures
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The black hole named Cygnus X-1 in the Milky Way galaxy was formed when a large star collapsed in on itself. This artist’s illustration depicts what astronomers think happened within the Cygnus X-1 system. Image: NASA
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This image shows visible/near-infrared images taken by NASA’s Hubble telescope showing a massive star ~25 times the Sun’s mass, that has winked out of existence – leaving no supernova or other explanation behind. Image: NASA/ESA/C. Kochanek
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These visible/near-infrared images taken by NASA’s Hubble telescope show a massive star ~25 times the Sun’s mass, that has winked out of existence leaving no supernova or other explanation behind. Image: NASA/ESA/STScI
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A supermassive black hole with more than 4.1 million times the mass of the Sun is right in the centre of the Milky Way, just 26,000 light-years away! And as we speak, it’s in the process of tearing apart entire stars and star systems. Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Flickr
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An interactive visualisation of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. Image: ESA Advanced Concepts Team (Images and code), ESO/S Brunier (Milky Way background).
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A supermassive black hole consuming matter from a nearby star [artistic illustration]. Image: NASA/JLP-Caltech
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An artist’s illustration of a black hole apocalypse. Image credit: NOVA/WGBH
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Would you survive if you travel through an enormous black hole like in the movies? Physicists have been studying the notion, and they think there’s no chance we’ll survive one. Image: Roen Kelly/Discover
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Jets of energy and matter being thrown out from the centre of the Hercules A galaxy, at nearly the speed of light. This demonstrates the awesome destructive power of black holes [artistic concept based on Hubble data]. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Massive jets propelling away from the black hole at the centre of Centaurus A Galaxy, 13 million light-years away. The jets alone stretch further in space than the Galaxy itself. Image: ESO/WFI/MPIfR/APEX/NASA/CXC
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The aftermath of two merging neutron stars observed in 2017 (pictured), suggests that a black hole was created from the merger [artist’s illustration] Image: NSA/LIGO/Sonoma State University
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A close-up of the Sagittarius A* black hole in the Milky Way seen in X-rays only by NASA’s Chandra Observatory. The falsely blue-coloured X-rays being emitted are from hot gas captured by the black hole that is being pulled inwards. Image: NASA
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An active black hole – one that accretes matter and accelerates a part of it outwards in two, perpendicular jets. The matter that falls into a black hole, of any kind will grow additionally in mass and size for the black hole. Despite the misconceptions, however, there is no ‘sucking in’ of external matter any black hole. Image: Mark Garlick/Flickr
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An active galactic nucleus, with a supermassive black hole at the centre. The disk around the black hole sends a narrow, high-energy jet of matter into space. Only matter from outside the black hole’s event horizon can leave the black hole. Image: DESY, Science Communication Lab
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