Tag: black hole
NASA's Field Guide to Black Holes
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 b...
NASA Footage Shows How Terrifyingly Vast Black Holes Are
The journey begins with 1601+3113, a dwarf galaxy hosting a black hole packed with the mass of 100,000 Suns. The matter is so compressed that even the black hole’s shadow is smaller than our Sun. The black hole at the heart of our Milky Way, Sagittarius A...
Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding
This is the sound of two black holes colliding! It was caught by the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) lab.
NASA Releases Audio of What a Black Hole ‘Sounds’ Like
On Sunday, August 21, 2022 Nasa released an audio clip that represents actual sound waves emanating from the enormous black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster.
The Largest Known Black Hole
Quasars are the brightest objects in the Universe. TON 618 is a very distant and extremely luminous quasar. It is an accretion disc of intensely hot gas swirling around the largest black hole known to mankind.
