Hubble image archive
A Pair of Merging Black Holes (Artist's Concept)
Caption This is an artist's depiction of a pair of active black holes at the heart of two merging galaxies. They are both surrounded by an accretion disk of hot gas. Some of the material is ejected along the spin axis of each black hole. Confined by powerful magnetic fields, the...
- Date
- Sep 9, 2024
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2024-022-01j0y3tc2zbmrsna1kmsbn74nh
Caption
This is an artist's depiction of a pair of active black holes at the heart of two merging galaxies. They are both surrounded by an accretion disk of hot gas. Some of the material is ejected along the spin axis of each black hole. Confined by powerful magnetic fields, the jets blaze across space at nearly the speed of light as devastating beams of energy.
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- Full res "Artist's Concept" watermarked (For Display), 3840 X 2160, JPG (2.57 MB)
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- Half Res (for Display), 1920 X 1080, JPG (801.46 KB)
- Full Res (For Print), 3840 X 2160, TIF (15.86 MB)
Source
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