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 | Spinning Black Hole Animation This image depicts a spinning black hole located in a binary system with a blue giant star. Photo Platform: Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
Date Released: April 30, 2001 - movie |
 | Spinning Black Hole: Event Horizon This image represents the immediate vicinity of a black hole, with the event horizon depicted as a black sphere. Photo Platform: Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
Date Released: April 30, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | Spinning Black Hole: Gas disk swirls inward Gas can be seen forming a disk-shaped structure as it whirls around the black hole, like soap suds spiraling down a bathtub drain. Photo Platform: Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
Date Released: April 30, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | Spinning Black Hole: Black hole and blue giant binary system This computer animation shows a black hole and a nearby blue giant star in a binary (double) system. Photo Platform: Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
Date Released: April 30, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | Chandra uncovers evidence of boundaries around black holes NASA's two Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra
X-ray Observatory, have independently provided what could be the best direct
evidence yet for the existence of an event horizon, the defining feature of
a black hole and one of the most bizarre astrophysical concepts in nature. Photo Platform: Chandra
Date Released: January 11, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | Artist's Concept of Matter Falling into a Black Hole The Hubble telescope may have, for the first time, provided direct evidence
for the existence of black holes by observing how matter disappears when it
falls beyond the "event horizon," the boundary between a black hole and the
outside universe. Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: January 11, 2001 small - medium - movie |
 | Hubble Confirms Existence of Massive Black Hole at Heart of Active Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has returned the most detailed images ever of supernova 1994I which is in the "Whirlpool
Galaxy" (M51) located 20 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: May 25, 1994 small - medium - download large |
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