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Meta DescriptionThis gallery gathers together visualizations and narrated videos about black holes. A black hole is a celestial object whose gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape it. Astronomers observe two main types of black holes. Stellar-mass black holes contain three to dozens of times the mass of our Sun. They form when the cores of very massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight, compressing large amounts of matter into a tiny space. Supermassive black holes, with masses up to billions of times the Sun’s, can be found at the centers of most big galaxies. Although a black hole does not emit light, matter falling toward it collects in a hot, glowing accretion disk that astronomers can detect.
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Released Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 Updated Monday, November 10th, 2025 at 12:00AM ID: 40368 Contents Overview Most Recent Black Hole Stories Significant Black Hole Stories Overview This gallery gathers together visualizations and narrated videos about black holes. A black hole is a celestial object whose gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape it. Astronomers observe two main types of black holes. Stellar-mass black holes contain three to dozens of times the mass of our Sun. They form when the cores of very massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight, compressing large amounts of matter into a tiny space. Supermassive black holes, with masses up to billions of times the Sun’s, can be found at the centers of most big galaxies. Although a black hole does not emit light, matter falling toward it collects in a hot, glowing accretion disk that astronomers can detect. Most Recent Black Hole Stories Significant Black Hole Stories
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[![NASA Logo](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/static/svs/images/nasa-meatball.svg)](https://www.nasa.gov/) [Scientific Visualization Studio](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/) - [Galleries](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/the-galleries/) - [Help](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/help/) # Black Holes - **Released** Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 - **Updated** Monday, November 10th, 2025 at 12:00AM - ID: 40368 *** ## Contents [Overview](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-holes/#media_group_371339) [Most Recent Black Hole Stories](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-holes/#media_group_371340) [Significant Black Hole Stories](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-holes/#media_group_371341) ## Overview This gallery gathers together visualizations and narrated videos about black holes. A black hole is a celestial object whose gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape it. Astronomers observe two main types of black holes. Stellar-mass black holes contain three to dozens of times the mass of our Sun. They form when the cores of very massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight, compressing large amounts of matter into a tiny space. Supermassive black holes, with masses up to billions of times the Sun’s, can be found at the centers of most big galaxies. Although a black hole does not emit light, matter falling toward it collects in a hot, glowing accretion disk that astronomers can detect. ## Most Recent Black Hole Stories - [![This artist’s concept shows the different structures that compose an active galactic nucleus. It starts with a full view and then points out the photon ring, corona, jet, accretion disk, and dusty torus before ending on the full view.Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Conceptual Image Lab](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014900/a014905/14905_-_BlackHole_Environments_Animations_Labeled.00001_print.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14905/ "Go to this page") ID: 14905 Produced Video ### [Black Hole Environments, Explained](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14905/ "Go to this page") - [![Active galaxy 1ES 1927+654, circled, has exhibited extraordinary changes since 2018, when a major outburst occurred in visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray light. The galaxy harbors a central black hole weighing about 1.4 million solar masses and is located 270 million light-years away.Credit: Pan-STARRSUnannotated versions available.Image description: On a mottled black background, soft circles ranging in color from blue-white to orange represent stars in our own galaxy. At center, to the right of a chain of three bluish stars, lies a softer white circle set within a grayish ellipse whose longest dimension is oriented vertically. This is 1ES 1927+654, circled in green in this image.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014753/1ES1927_PanSTARRS_1080_circ.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14753/ "Go to this page") ID: 14753 Produced Video ### [Astronomers Track Jet Launch, Fluctuating X-Rays from Brink of Active Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14753/ "Go to this page") - [![Watch this video episode of the Curious Universe podcast.Music: "Curiosity" by SYSTEM Sounds \[Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida\] Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014737/CU_BH_Flagship_Thumbnail6.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14737/ "Go to this page") ID: 14737 Produced Video ### [Curious Universe Video Episode: The Mind-bending Math Inside Black Holes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14737/ "Go to this page") - [![Watch as a gas cloud encounters two supermassive black holes. The complex interplay of gravitational and frictional forces causes the cloud to condense and heat. Some of the gas is ejected from the system with each orbit of the black holes.Credit: F. Goicovic et al. 2016Music: "Forgotten Fortunes," Magnum Opus \[ASCAP\] , Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014719/Sim_Video_Still_searchweb.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14719/ "Go to this page") ID: 14719 Visualization ### [Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14719/ "Go to this page") - [![This artist's concept takes a fanciful approach to imagining small primordial black holes. In reality, such tiny black holes would have a difficult time forming the accretion disks that make them visible here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014500/a014524/Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k_print.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14524/ "Go to this page") ID: 14524 Infographic ### [Primordial Black Holes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14524/ "Go to this page") - [![In this flight toward a supermassive black hole, labels highlight many of the fascinating features produced by the effects of general relativity along the way. This supercomputer visualization tracks a camera as it approaches, briefly orbits, and then crosses the event horizon — the point of no return — of a supersized black hole similar in mass to the one at the center of our galaxy. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. PowellMusic: “Tidal Force,” Thomas Daniel Bellingham \[PRS\], Universal Production Music“Memories” from Digital Juice“Path Finder,” Eric Jacobsen \[TONO\] and Lorenzo Castellarin \[BMI\], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014500/a014576/14576_PageThumbnail_searchweb.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14576/ "Go to this page") ID: 14576 Visualization ### [NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14576/ "Go to this page") - [![All monster black holes are not equal. Watch this video to see how they compare to each other and to our solar system. The black holes shown, which range from 100,000 to more than 60 billion times our Sun’s mass, are scaled according to the sizes of their shadows – a circular zone about twice the size of their event horizons. Only one of these colossal objects resides in our own galaxy, and it lies 26,000 light-years away. Smaller black holes are shown in bluish colors because their gas is expected to be hotter than that orbiting larger ones. Scientists think all of these objects shine most intensely in ultraviolet light. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabMusic: "In the Stars" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014300/a014335/SMBH_Scale_Still_1.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14335/ "Go to this page") ID: 14335 Produced Video ### [NASA Animation Sizes Up the Universe’s Biggest Black Holes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14335/ "Go to this page") - [![Learn more about the best-known black hole systems in our galaxy and its neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This visualization presents 22 X-ray binary systems that host confirmed black holes at the same scale, with their orbits sped up by about 22,000 times. The view of each system reflects how we see it from Earth. Star colors ranging from blue-white to reddish represent temperatures from 5 times hotter to 45% cooler than our Sun. In most of these systems, a stream of matter from the star forms an accretion disk around the black hole. In others, like the famous system called Cygnus X-1, the star produces a hefty outflow that is partly swept up by the black hole’s gravity to form the disk. The accretion disks use a different color scheme because they sport even higher temperatures than the stars. The largest disk shown, belonging to a binary called GRS 1915, spans a distance greater than that separating Mercury from our Sun. The black holes themselves are shown larger than in reality using spheres scaled to reflect their masses.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Scientific Visualization StudioMusic: "Event Horizon" from Gravity. Written and produced by Lars LeonhardWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014100/a014149/Black_Hole_Orrery_Still.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14149/ "Go to this page") ID: 14149 Produced Video ### [NASA's Black Hole Orrery](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14149/ "Go to this page") - [![This gallery brings together resources related to NASA’s Black Hole Week — videos, social media products, news stories, still images, and assets. This week is a celebration of celestial objects with gravity so intense that even light cannot escape them. Our goal is that no matter where people turn that week they will run into a black hole. (Figuratively, of course — we don’t want anyone falling in!)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013300/a013322/black_hole_week_promo_thumb_searchweb.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-hole-week/ "Go to this page") ID: 40436 Gallery ### [Black Hole Week](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-hole-week/ "Go to this page") - [![Episode 2 - Fancy Black HolesOnce you’ve gotten the hang of basic black holes, you might want to search for some fancier ones. That’s great! But, before you do, refer to this convenient chapter to learn just how fancy some black holes can be.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Oh Really" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013800/a013834/ep2_still.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13834/ "Go to this page") ID: 13834 Produced Video ### [NASA's Field Guide to Black Holes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13834/ "Go to this page") - [![Beginning with the Event Horizon Telescope's now iconic image of M87, this video takes viewers on a journey through the data from several telescopes. The video shows data across many factors of 10 in scale, both of wavelengths of light and physical size. ](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004800/a004807/M87_EHT_Multiwavelength_Zoom_print.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4807/ "Go to this page") ID: 4807 Visualization ### [M87: Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4807/ "Go to this page") - [![Explore how the extreme gravity of two orbiting supermassive black holes distorts our view. In this visualization, disks of bright, hot, churning gas encircle both black holes, shown in red and blue to better track the light source. The red disk orbits the larger black hole, which weighs 200 million times the mass of our Sun, while its smaller blue companion weighs half as much. Zooming into each black hole reveals multiple, increasingly warped images of its partner. Watch to learn more. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. PowellMusic: "Gravitational Field" from Orbit. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013800/a013831/Supermassive_BlackHole_Binary_Still_searchweb.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13831/ "Go to this page") ID: 13831 Produced Video ### [NASA Visualization Probes the Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13831/ "Go to this page") - [![Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013800/a013810/13810_GLOB_WIDE_SEARCH_MAIN.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13810/ "Go to this page") ID: 13810 Produced Video ### [Hubble Uncovers Concentration of Small Black Holes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13810/ "Go to this page") - [![Watch how a monster black hole ripping apart a star may have launched a ghost particle toward Earth. Astronomers have long predicted that tidal disruption events could produce high-energy neutrinos, nearly massless particles from outside our galaxy traveling close to the speed of light. One recent event, named AT2019dsg, provides the first proof this prediction is true but has challenged scientists’ assumptions of where and when these elusive particles might form during these destructive outbursts. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Diagnostic Report" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013800/a013805/AT2019dsg_prores_still.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13805/ "Go to this page") ID: 13805 Produced Video ### [Swift Links Neutrino to Star-destroying Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13805/ "Go to this page") - [![This movie shows a complete revolution around a simulated black hole and its accretion disk following a path that is perpendicular to the disk. The black hole’s extreme gravitational field redirects and distorts light coming from different parts of the disk, but exactly what we see depends on our viewing angle. The greatest distortion occurs when viewing the system nearly edgewise. As our viewpoint rotates around the black hole, we see different parts of the fast-moving gas in the accretion disk moving directly toward us. Due to a phenomenon called "relativistic Doppler beaming," gas in the disk that's moving toward us makes that side of the disk appear brighter, the opposite side darker. This effect disappears when we're directly above or below the disk because, from that angle, none of the gas is moving directly toward us.When our viewpoint passes beneath the disk, it looks like the gas is moving in the opposite direction. This is no different that viewing a clock from behind, which would make it look like the hands are moving counter-clockwise.CORRECTION: In earlier versions of the 360-degree movies on this page, these important effects were not apparent. This was due to a minor mistake in orienting the camera relative to the disk. The fact that it was not initially discovered by the NASA scientist who made the movie reflects just how bizarre and counter-intuitive black holes can be! Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013300/a013326/BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.00001_print.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326/ "Go to this page") ID: 13326 Produced Video ### [Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326/ "Go to this page") - [![Black Hole 101: What Is a Black Hole?Want to know more about black holes, but don't have a lot of time? This short video will give you a quick overview of some of the most interesting features of black holes.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Dinner With the Vicar" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013300/a013322/black_hole_week_01_what_is_a_black_hole_thumb_print.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13322/ "Go to this page") ID: 13322 Animation ### [NASA's Guide To Black Hole Safety](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13322/ "Go to this page") - [![Watch what scientists think happens when a black hole tears apart a hot, dense white dwarf star. A team working with observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory suggest this process explains a mysterious outburst known as AT2018cow. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Curious Events" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the JPL YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012800/a012855/AT2018COW_Labeled_Still_3_print.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12855/ "Go to this page") ID: 12855 Produced Video ### [Mysterious ‘Cow’ Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12855/ "Go to this page") - [![This movie is available both with and without on-screen text.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Tension Underlying" from Universal Production Music](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013200/a013239/m87_thumb_01.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13239/ "Go to this page") ID: 13239 Produced Video ### [Zoom In on Galaxy M87](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13239/ "Go to this page") - [![Gas glows brightly in this computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging. Models like this may eventually help scientists pinpoint real examples of these powerful binary systems. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018Music: "Games Show Sphere 01" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013000/a013043/SMBH_Sim_Still_1.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13043/ "Go to this page") ID: 13043 Produced Video ### [New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13043/ "Go to this page") - [![The discovery of a high-energy neutrino on Sept. 22, 2017, sent astronomers on a chase to locate its source -- a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. Watch to learn more.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Hidden Tides" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012900/a012994/Blazar.00590_print.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12994/ "Go to this page") ID: 12994 Produced Video ### [NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12994/ "Go to this page") - [![Music credit: "High Heelz" by Donn Wilkerson \[BMI\] and Lance Sumner \[BMI\]; Killer Tracks BMI; Killer Tracks Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012600/a012621/Hubble_black_hole_birth_thumbnail.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12621/ "Go to this page") ID: 12621 Produced Video ### [Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12621/ "Go to this page") - [![This animation illustrates how debris from a tidally disrupted star collides with itself, creating shock waves that emit ultraviolet and optical light far from the black hole. According to Swift observations of ASASSN-14li, these clumps took about a month to fall back to the black hole, where they produced changes in the X-ray emission that correlated with the earlier UV and optical changes.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012400/a012499/TD_Shocks_Still_print.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12499/ "Go to this page") ID: 12499 Produced Video ### [Swift Charts a Star's 'Death Spiral' into Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12499/ "Go to this page") - [![Music credit: "Stealth Car" by Tom Sue \[GEMA\] and Zac Singer \[GEMA\]; Ed. Berlin Production Music/Universal Publishing Production Music GmbH GEMA; Berlin Production Music; Killer Tracks Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012500/a012539/hubble_rogue_black_hole_thumbnail2.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12539/ "Go to this page") ID: 12539 Produced Video ### [Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12539/ "Go to this page") - [![This animation shows the central supermassive black hole of a blazar. The black hole is surrounded by a bright accretion disk and a darker torus of gas and dust. A bright jet of particles emerges from above and below the black hole. Collisions within the jet produce high-energy photons such as gamma rays. A flare from the blazar results in an additional burst of gamma rays and neutrinos.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020200/a020281/BlazarProRes.00801_print.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20281/ "Go to this page") ID: 20281 Animation ### [Blazar Animations](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20281/ "Go to this page") - [![Spitzer Infrared image of the Milky Way Center ](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a030000/a030900/a030961/STScI-H-MWC_IR-1920x1080.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30961/ "Go to this page") ID: 30961 Hyperwall Visual ### [Milky Way Center in Multiple Wavelengths](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30961/ "Go to this page") - [![This composite image of galaxy M106 focuses on its active center, where large amounts of gas are thought to be falling into and fueling a supermassive black hole.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a030000/a031000/a031021/STScI-H-M106_Legus_7910x6178_print.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31021/ "Go to this page") ID: 31021 Hyperwall Visual ### [Spiral Galaxy M106](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31021/ "Go to this page") - [![Watch as a monster black hole partially consumes an orbiting giant star. In this illustration, the gas pulled from the star collides with the black hole’s debris disk and causes a flare. Astronomers have named this repeating event ASASSN-14ko. The flares are the most predictable and frequent yet seen from an active galaxy. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Ruminations" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013700/a013798/periodic_AGN_still.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13798/ "Go to this page") ID: 13798 Produced Video ### [Swift, TESS Catch Eruptions from an Active Galaxy](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13798/ "Go to this page") ## Significant Black Hole Stories - [![Watch how X-ray echoes, mapped by NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) revealed changes to the corona of black hole MAXI J1820+070. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Music: "Superluminal" from Killer TracksComplete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012800/a012854/Black_Hole_Corona_Still.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12854/ "Go to this page") ID: 12854 Produced Video ### [NICER Charts the Area Around a New Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12854/ "Go to this page") - [![Gas glows brightly in this computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging. Models like this may eventually help scientists pinpoint real examples of these powerful binary systems. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018Music: "Games Show Sphere 01" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013000/a013043/SMBH_Sim_Still_1.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13043/ "Go to this page") ID: 13043 Produced Video ### [New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13043/ "Go to this page") - [![The discovery of a high-energy neutrino on Sept. 22, 2017, sent astronomers on a chase to locate its source -- a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. Watch to learn more.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Hidden Tides" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012900/a012994/Blazar.00590_print.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12994/ "Go to this page") ID: 12994 Produced Video ### [NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12994/ "Go to this page") - [![A star approaching too close to a massive black hole is torn apart by tidal forces, as shown in this artist's rendering. Filaments containing much of the star's mass fall toward the black hole. Eventually these gaseous filaments merge into a smooth, hot disk glowing brightly in X-rays. As the disk forms, its central region heats up tremendously, which drives a flow of material, called a wind, away from the disk. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012000/a012005/Swift_Tidal_Disruption_2_Still.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12005/ "Go to this page") ID: 12005 Produced Video ### [Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12005/ "Go to this page") - [![NASA Goddard astronomer Erin Kara discusses the discovery of X-ray echoes from Swift J1644+57, a black hole that shattered a passing star. X-rays produced by flares near this million-solar-mass black hole bounced off the nascent accretion disk and revealed its structure. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "The Orion Arm" and "Particle Acceleration" both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012200/a012265/TD_Still.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12265/ "Go to this page") ID: 12265 Produced Video ### [X-ray Echoes Map a 'Killer' Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12265/ "Go to this page") - [![Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.Explore M82 X-1 and learn more about how astronomers used X-ray fluctuations to determine its status as an intermediate-mass black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011600/a011625/RXTE_Midsize_BH_Still.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11625/ "Go to this page") ID: 11625 Produced Video ### [NASA's RXTE Satellite Catches the Beat of a Midsize Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11625/ "Go to this page") - [![ The image layers multiple frames from the visualization to increase the number of dark matter particles. The particles are shown as gray spheres attached to shaded trails representing their motion. Redder trails indicate particles more strongly affected by the black hole's gravitation and closer to its event horizon (black sphere at center, mostly hidden by trails). The ergosphere, where all matter and light must follow the black hole's spin, is shown in teal. Credit: NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio ](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011800/a011894/DMBH_layered.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11894/ "Go to this page") ID: 11894 Produced Video ### [Turning Black Holes into Dark Matter Labs](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11894/ "Go to this page") - [![Edited video with music of the 4k neutron star merger simulation.Credit: NASA/AEI/ZIB/M. Koppitz and L. RezzollaMusic: "Approaching Eclipse" from stock music site Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011530/NS_Merger_Frame_200_1080.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11530/ "Go to this page") ID: 11530 Produced Video ### [Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11530/ "Go to this page") - [![This animation of supercomputer data takes you to the inner zone of the accretion disk of a stellar-mass black hole. Gas heated to 20 million degrees F as it spirals toward the black hole glows in low-energy, or soft, X-rays. Just before the gas plunges to the center, its orbital motion is approaching the speed of light. X-rays up to hundreds of times more powerful ("harder") than those in the disk arise from the corona, a region of tenuous and much hotter gas around the disk. Coronal temperatures reach billions of degrees. The event horizon is the boundary where all trajectories, including those of light, must go inward. Nothing, not even light, can pass outward across the event horizon and escape the black hole.Music: "Lost in Space" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of artist.For complete transcript, click here.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011206/Black_Hole_Sim_Still.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11206/ "Go to this page") ID: 11206 Produced Video ### [NASA-led Study Explains How Black Holes Shine in Hard X-rays](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11206/ "Go to this page") - [![No Labels. Left: The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128 is the radio source known as Centaurus A. Vast radio-emitting lobes (shown as orange in this optical/radio composite) extend nearly a million light-years from the galaxy. Credit: Capella Observatory (optical), with radio data from Ilana Feain, Tim Cornwell, and Ron Ekers (CSIRO/ATNF), R. Morganti (ASTRON), and N. Junkes (MPIfR). Right: This radio image from the TANAMI project provides the sharpest-ever view of a supermassive black hole's jets. As seen here, the full extent of the jet and counterjet is 4.16 light-years, smaller than the distance between our sun and the nearest star. The image resolves details as small as 15 light-days across. Undetected between the jets is the galaxy's 55-million-solar-mass black hole. Credit: NASA/TANAMI/M\&\#252;ller et al.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010700/a010770/Cen_A_inner_jet_English_no_labels.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10770/ "Go to this page") ID: 10770 Produced Video ### [Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of a Black Hole's Jets](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10770/ "Go to this page") - [![Supercomputer models of merging black holes reveal properties that are crucial to understanding future detections of gravitational waves. This movie follows two orbiting black holes and their accretion disk during their final three orbits and ultimate merger. Redder colors correspond to higher gas densities. This version has music and on-screen labels.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/P. Cowperthwaite, Univ. of MarylandFor complete transcript, click here.](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011000/a011086/Black_Hole_merger_Still.png)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11086/ "Go to this page") ID: 11086 Produced Video ### [Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11086/ "Go to this page") - [![This animation shows an artist's rendition of the cloudy structure revealed by a study of data from NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite.Credit: Wolfgang Steffen, UNAM](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011400/a011482/agn_2013_mirko2000.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11482/ "Go to this page") ID: 11482 Produced Video ### [The Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11482/ "Go to this page") - [![Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Astronomers think most occur when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, collapses under its own weight, and forms a black hole. The black hole then drives jets of particles that drill all the way through the collapsing star at nearly the speed of light. Artist's rendering.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011400/a011407/Nebula-Jet_Still_1.jpg)](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11407/ "Go to this page") ID: 11407 Produced Video ### [Briefing Materials: NASA Missions Explore Record-Setting Cosmic Blast](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11407/ "Go to this page") *** [![NASA Home Page](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/static/svs/images/nasa-meatball.svg)](https://www.nasa.gov/) [![USA.gov Home Page](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/static/svs/images/USAgov_logo.svg)](https://www.usa.gov/) *** [Privacy Policy and Important Notices](https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html) [Reproduction Guidelines](https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html) NASA Official: [Mark SubbaRao](<mailto:mark.u.subbarao@nasa.gov?subject=Mail from SVS Website>) Site Curator: [Ella Kaplan](<mailto:ella.kaplan@nasa.gov?subject=Mail from SVS Website>)
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- **Released** Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 - **Updated** Monday, November 10th, 2025 at 12:00AM - ID: 40368 *** Contents [Overview](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-holes/#media_group_371339) [Most Recent Black Hole Stories](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-holes/#media_group_371340) [Significant Black Hole Stories](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-holes/#media_group_371341) ## Overview This gallery gathers together visualizations and narrated videos about black holes. A black hole is a celestial object whose gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape it. Astronomers observe two main types of black holes. Stellar-mass black holes contain three to dozens of times the mass of our Sun. They form when the cores of very massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight, compressing large amounts of matter into a tiny space. Supermassive black holes, with masses up to billions of times the Sun’s, can be found at the centers of most big galaxies. Although a black hole does not emit light, matter falling toward it collects in a hot, glowing accretion disk that astronomers can detect. ## Most Recent Black Hole Stories ## Significant Black Hole Stories ***
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