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[edit]DescriptionBlack Hole Week- Black Hole GIFs (SVS14132 - BHW Gravitational Waves 3D Visualization).gif |
English: This visualization shows gravitational waves emitted by two black holes (black spheres) of nearly equal mass as they spiral together and merge. Yellow structures near the black holes illustrate the strong curvature of space-time in the region. Orange ripples represent distortions of space-time caused by the rapidly orbiting masses. These distortions spread out and weaken, ultimately becoming gravitational waves (purple). The merger timescale depends on the masses of the black holes. For a system containing black holes with about 30 times the sun’s mass, similar to the one detected by LIGO in 2015, the orbital period at the start of the movie is just 65 milliseconds, with the black holes moving at about 15 percent the speed of light. Space-time distortions radiate away orbital energy and cause the binary to contract quickly. As the two black holes near each other, they merge into a single black hole that settles into its "ringdown" phase, where the final gravitational waves are emitted. For the 2015 LIGO detection, these events played out in little more than a quarter of a second. This simulation was performed on the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center. Credit: NASA/Bernard J. Kelly (Goddard and Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County), Chris Henze (Ames) and Tim Sandstrom (CSC Government Solutions LLC) |
Date | 12 April 2022 (upload date) |
Source | Black Hole Week: Black Hole GIFs |
Author | NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - University of Maryland College Park/Barb Mattson, University of Maryland College Park/Sara Mitchell, Business Integra/Kelly Ramos, KBR Wyle Services, LLC/Scott Wiessinger |
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Keywords InfoField | Neutron Star; Space; Supernova; Astrophysics; Black Hole; Star; Gamma Ray Burst; X-ray |
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