The US Aerospace Administration showed a visualization of what a pair of supermassive black holes looks like in a binary system. The video shows how these unusual cosmic objects distort the rays of light emitted by their accretion disks – “whirlpools” of gas heated to high temperatures during the prolonged fall of matter to the […]
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A giant flashing light was seen in space: a black hole is gradually “biting off” from a star – video
Astronomers have discovered and studied 20 recurring flares 570 million light years away – the ASASSN-14ko phenomenon. Using data from two telescopes (Swift Observatory and TESS), they concluded that a supermassive black hole in the galaxy ESO 253-3 generates the cosmic “flasher”, which gradually absorbs a star trapped in a gravitational trap. The center […]