The power supply for the detectors in the Burst Alert Telescope onboard Swift was my first project at Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Black Hole Snack Attack
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Tag Archives: Black Holes
Big Black Holes
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A Runaway Black Hole
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Colliding Black Holes
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X-Ray Vision
This image was made with over 7 million seconds (about 11-1/2 weeks) of Chandra X-Ray Observatory observing time. It’s part of the Chandra Deep Field-South and is the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This look at the early Universe in X-rays gives astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years starting soon after the Big Bang. In this image, low, medium, and high-energy X-rays that Chandra detects are shown as red, green, and blue respectively.
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How Big Can a Black Hole Be?
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Falling Into A Black Hole
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The Surfboard Galaxy
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A Black Hole Primer
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Sonification of a Couple of Black Holes
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Black Hole Binary Systems
This animation presents 22 X-ray binary systems that host confirmed black holes. All the systems are show at the same scale, and their orbits sped up by about 22,000 times.
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Could a Black Hole Ruin Your Planet?
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Multi-Messenger Astronomy
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Zooming in on a Pair of Black Holes
NGC 7727 is a galaxy with two centeral nuclei, each on with its own black hole.
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Simulating a Star-Eating Black Hole
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Gravitational Lensing X-Rays
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NATS and WATS
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Investigating an ‘Old Faithful’ Active Galaxy
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Hubble and Black Holes
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Putting a Black Hole on a Diet
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A Pair of Black Holes
The magenta spots in this image show a couple of black holes in the Circinus galaxy—the supermassive black hole at its heart and a smaller one closer to the edge. The smaller one belongs to a class of objects called ultraluminous X-ray sources, or ULXs. ULXs are black holes actively feeding off material drawn in from a partner star.
The ULX was spotted by NuSTAR which sees high-energy X-ray light. The magenta X-ray data in the image above come from the NuSTAR and are overlaid on a visible/infrared image from the Digitized Sky Survey.
The Circinus galaxy is located 13 million light-years away in the southern sky constellation Circinus.
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A Black Hole’s Breakfast
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Black Holes
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A Triplet of Black Holes
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Black Hole Tourism
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