New NASA Visualization Probes the Light-bending Dance of Binary Black Holes

A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic dance in a new NASA visualization. The movie traces how the black holes distort and redirect light emanating from the maelstrom of hot gas – called an accretion disk – that surrounds each one.


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Source: NASA Goddard Center