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[edit]DescriptionAn Isolated Black Hole (Illustration) (52675793824).png |
English: This is an illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. The black hole is the crushed remnant of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. The surviving core is several times the mass of our Sun. The black hole traps light due to its intense gravitational field. The black hole distorts the space around it, which warps images of background stars lined up almost directly behind it. This gravitational "lensing" effect offers the only telltale evidence for the existence of lone black holes wandering our galaxy, which may be a population of 100 million. The Hubble Space Telescope goes hunting for these black holes by looking for distortion in starlight as the black holes drift in front of background stars.
Credit: FECYT, IAC For more information: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-001 |
Date | Taken on 7 February 2023, 13:54:07 |
Source | An Isolated Black Hole (Illustration) |
Author | NASA Hubble |
Flickr set InfoField | The Art of Hubble |
Flickr tags InfoField | spacetelescope; cosmic; milkyway; cosmos; astronomy; blackhole; space; hubble; nasa; esa; hubblespacetelescope; science; universe; telescope |
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Author | Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach |
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Credit/Provider | FECTY and IAC |
Headline | Black Hole Outflow Ignites Star Formation in Small Galaxy |
Source | STScI |
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Date and time of data generation | 10 January 2022 |
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Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 220 dpi |
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Contact information | outreach@stsci.edu
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Keywords | Milky Way |
Date and time of digitizing | 07:58, 5 August 2021 |
Date metadata was last modified | 03:49, 22 December 2021 |
File change date and time | 08:24, 21 December 2021 |
Unique ID of original document | C48B723CEE243399DF6F5B2A2296629E |