Black Hole Eating a Star (Illustration) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Black Hole Eating a Star (Illustration) / NASA Hubble
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | This artist's concept depicts a star being shredded by the intense gravitational pull of a black hole that contains tens of thousands of solar masses. The stellar remains are forming an accretion disk around the black hole. Flares of X-ray light from the super-heated gas disk alerted astronomers to the black hole's location; otherwise it lurked unknown in the dark. The elusive object is classified as an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), as it is much less massive than the monster black holes that dwell in the centers of galaxies. Therefore, IMBHs are mostly quiescent because they do not pull in as much material, and are hard to find. Hubble observations provide evidence that the IMBH dwells inside a dense star cluster. The cluster itself may be the stripped-down core of a dwarf galaxy.Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI)For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-19Find us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube |
| 撮影日 | 2020-03-16 13:50:14 |
| 撮影者 | NASA Hubble |
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