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NASA Missions Monitor a Waking Black Hole

2017-12-08

NASA

NASA
Washington, DC, United States

On June 15, NASA's Swift caught the onset of a rare X-ray outburst from a stellar-mass black hole in the binary system V404 Cygni. Astronomers around the world are watching the event. In this system, a stream of gas from a star much like the sun flows toward a 10 solar mass black hole. Instead of spiraling toward the black hole, the gas accumulates in an accretion disk around it. Every couple of decades, the disk switches into a state that sends the gas rushing inward, starting a new outburst.

Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-missions-monitor-a-waki...

Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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  • Title: NASA Missions Monitor a Waking Black Hole
  • Date Created: 2017-12-08
  • Location: Greenbelt, MD
  • Rights: GSFC
  • Album: ayoung

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